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[Scoops Novel]

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[Frumple]

The ambulatory throne of hypnotoad, presumably.

... mobile colony of symbiotic reproductive collusion, more accurately.

[brewer bob]

A cesspit.

[NRDL]

A flesh mech suit for our brain

[feelotraveller]

Water, mostly.

[anewaname]

It is not a temple, but it contains a figurative temple...

A body is a machine composed of mutually enslaved cellular organisms dominated by multiple brain systems. The temple is in the gonads (testes or ovaries) and while the embryo is still in development, the primordial germ cells move from the embryo's allantois to the embryo's gonads (the temple) and do their thing, listen to this Radio Lab episode, where the germ cell's journey to the temple is described).

[EuchreJack]

A tank or other vehicle for our brain.

A flesh mech suit for our brain

While this is accurate, since Mech Suits are not commonly used by most people, it is not a relatable analogy.
A Car is easier to imagine.

[King Zultan]

A thing what contains a skeleton?

[martinuzz]

Delicious with red wine

[scriver]

My body is not a temple, but the sum of my body is my soul.

A tank or other vehicle for our brain.

A flesh mech suit for our brain

While this is accurate, since Mech Suits are not commonly used by most people, it is not a relatable analogy.
A Car is easier to imagine.

Research is showing that a surprisingly large amount of our consciousness lies in our stomachs, we simply need the brain to interpret it. Therefore we are more like flesh mech suits for our guts than our brains. Yes, we are all Krang.

[Egan_BW]

Lotta particles.

[voliol]

I thought the temples were on the sides of your head.

[Loud Whispers]

What is a body but a miserable pile of secrets? Hmmmm

[Bumber]

A thing in motion or at rest until an outside force acts upon it.

[McTraveller]

I'm struggling with the unfounded certainty of the original question.  Why do you say the body isn't a temple?

I'd say the human body does seem to fit a substantial part of the "book definition" of temple, assuming you are liberal with "building" and assume that whatever makes a human human is "an object of religious reverence" because the body is generally considered a structure devoted to worship and housing of a human.

a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence