Obama's elevation of bodily suffering above all other considerations, as he articulates it in his remarks to the press following his new executive order on stem cell research, is clearly an expression of this Cartesian legacy, of a modern science pregnant with moral attachments. (firstthings.com)
The tendency is at least as old as John Greenleaf Whittier, whose «The Crucifixion» makes much of seeing «the suffering son of God» but never shows us any concrete bodily suffering. (firstthings.com)
«If some Christians want to celebrate the death of Fred Phelps, I hope it's because they think he has been released from bodily suffering and is going home to God,» he said. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)