Centre of Excretology

“Genesis 3:7. “They knew that they were naked.”] It is probable that not only Adam and Eve immediately lost the beauty and that kind of luster that was on their bodies as soon as they had sinned, but that one effect of their eating this fruit, which immediately followed, was their voiding excrements, and that they never had done this before, in which they saw an image of their spiritual filthiness which came forth, as Christ says, from within, and proceeded out of their hearts, and fixed an idea of vileness as connected with those parts of their bodies, which it did the more deeply, as this effect, which they looked upon as the evidence of the debasing of their nature, they also looked upon as the fruit of their guilt, which their minds were now under a strong impression of. So that this external filthiness was connected with a sense of spiritual filthiness, which greatly affected ‘em”  –Jonathan Edwards, The Penteteuch

Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools. –Martin Luther, The Estate of Marriage