The Naked Church / The Spiritual Naturist Fellowship
Spirituality with nothing to hide. Our purpose is to support you on your own unique naturist spiritual journey. Shed the useless to discover the priceless - Rev. Steven Skelley
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one.
Montaigne (1533-1593)
If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.
Oscar Wilde
Saint Hippolytus of Rome required men, women and children to remove all clothing for baptisms.
Pope John Paul II said, "Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical shamelessness. The human body is not in itself shameful."
The Adamites, also called Adamians, were an Early Christian group in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries who wore no clothing during their religious services
In Hinduism, Purushartha impels a human being towards nudity either for spiritual aim or for the aim of enjoyment.
In India's Jainism, Digambara monks reject any form of clothing and practice nudity. Digambara literally means sky clad.
In Wicca, the term Skyclad refers to ritual nudity instead of social nudity.
The first documented naturist club, the Fellowship of the Naked Trust, was established in British India in 1891 by Charles Edward Gordon Crawford, an English judge.
In 1921, the Frisian island of Sylt opened its first official nudist beach as a getaway destination and in 1930 the Berlin School of Nudism opened.
I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way … When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide. - Padma Lakshmi
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind.
Paul Outerbridge
Some day people will grow up and realize that the only thing vile about human bodies is the small minds some people have developed within them.
Dick Hein
Take off your shoes and feel the grass beneath your feet. Then take off your clothes and feel the sun and the air and the world.
Barry Knell
A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking.
Dr Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt
There’s something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levis and we’re all the same.
Kevin Bacon
In fact, research suggests that children who have seen their parents nude do not grow up to be emotionally scarred, but instead are more likely to be accepting of their own bodies and comfortable with their own sexuality.
Holly Robinson
It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
English Proverb
I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.
Jennifer Lopez
Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can’t imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing.
Ben Miller
We are so narrow minded that we show war, murder, and rape on TV, but we are not allowed to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in its natural form.
Mario Roman
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.
Dr Lee Salk, psychiatrist
Wearing nothing is divine. Naked is a state of mind.": from the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids
"Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things"- Edgar Rice Burroughs
President John Quincy Adams regularly swam nude in the Potomac river.
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