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Originally Posted by TimMason
So my point was a weak one. But I don't think this detracts from the main argument I wanted to make, which was that in Christian and post-Christian thinking desire is seen as taking the unclean as its object.
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In some eastern traditions it is not the object that is the "problem" with desire, it is that desire
tout court, and the grasping that accompanies it, will result in suffering whatever the object. The objects of desire themselves are neither clean nor unclean, good nor bad.