In reply to Kay Savant.

Kay,

I started researching almost every aspect of the Christian faith and its history when the churches closed for Covid. First, not every Christian who is buried "rots in the ground". It has been known for centuries that there are some Christians who fall asleep in the Lord whose bodies remain uncorrupted through His miraculous work. This is not common, and typically occurs when the individual in question has been someone who rendered exceptional service to Christ and his flock.

"The scandal of Christianity is the Incarnation. God enters into matter. Therefore, matter is not "abandonment"; it is encounter. Christianity is not a disembodied religion, nor a philosophy that despises matter. Our theology is not Neoplatonism nor Gnosticism."

At its heart, cremation is a pagan funeral rite - one practiced by some European pagans in the pre-Christian world and still practiced by Hindus who have no hope of the resurrection of the individual God created.

Best wishes.