Do We Need 'Knowledge'?

99% agree with you about the spiritual level. There's plenty of good reasons to stand with this view. Many times I asked myself, trying to critique a way of believing in a style of peripatetics which is – to consider that 'tables', 'trees', 'planets', 'nails', etc existed. Why not to wonder whether there are 'tables' or 'atoms'? The tiniest particles or the whole systematic universe? Not that I insist on either of those sides, but rather the ontological problem itself is not a useless question.

Of course, if the Sun would blow didn't it mean that there were no humanity? No, it didn't. We can't take our flesh and bones as only what there is. The absurdity of such a materialistic view is enormous and shameful. This isn't better, than the semantic school in US in 20-30s.

I forgot the name of it, but that school was indeed interesting and it had many followers. Also I remember a person from Poland headed that school. Briefly, they considered most of the psychological problems came from the wrong usage of names.

They wanted to reveal functions of how semantic worked for individuals, and how they used it. In the result the school of them had been separated into groups, and later another one appeared – another one of the semantic analysis. And after that the movement was almost finished.

That last one group seriously thought that in our head there were Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola, Santa Claus, etc. How did they try to find that out – hadn't been formed into a positive method. No chances they had to push those views forward.

But the peripatetics and that semantic schools are similar at that ontological point – none of them cannot define and explain why there are different angles of things, and different points of views.

(I'll try to add something later.)

jonbain

Also an explanation of that why was I agree on 99% only was thing I wanted to add about the Orthodox tradition of Christianity, and partially the fact Slavoi Zizek discussed about it in some of his discussions ~15 years ago. There was a talk between Christianity, and the sacrifice aspect namely. Zizek agreed, even being an atheist, that Christianity (the Orthodox tradition of it) had a materialistic aspect that God became a person, so He literally materialized, and blessed some elements of the Earth (I guess ? Because I barely remember that whole discussion of him; by the way, I remember the name of that discussion, at least partially, it was something about the monstruosity of Christ... - that was a name, I suppose, Zizek proposed). Anyway, that can't be said, according to the Christianity, that at least a part of matter is blessed, and , therefore, we can hope being saved even participating something from the Earth. There is another point I am not sure, while I think that roughly I am correct — in African version of the Orthodoxy — smoking grass also is considered that a part of God's gift. Maybe I am wrong, but somehow God can talk via some conditions, and that condition results through some material elements, as with the grass.

The world, or the universe, might have been infected with a terrible plague, however the worse illness is not a problem for the best doctor, which is God. He is the healer. And why souls should be put into this prison of matter? Maybe it is the process of cure. Like, you know, drinking bitter medical mixtures. Even smoking isn't such a pleasure; the pleasure is the results of it. 

Maybe it is, but why God turned into the flesh & bones transformed into a human? And why God blessed the food: wine and bread, which are the part of this world? 

I agree that the matter is rather the temporary lair for us, however, if to start doubt into the matter in general we risk to become Gnostics, who were rejecting any matter. 

Even so God is the creator also of the matter. Through it people may participate God, like, for instance, bless their bread or other products - anything they have gotten by working with matter in different way - to God. 
Of course, God doesn't need in any of it, it is for sure, while people may do it as an act of their sincerity. Even if people don't need to do any of this, I don't think God rejects such a way of blessing Him. If a person does his business well, he may give a part of his finance to the church as an act of pleasing God. Or to give a part of his money to someone else who's needed in it. And, yes, God dosn't ask people do this, however in Gospels many times such acts are being emphasized by Christ. 

I do agree that the spirit does not need any matter to exist. And at the same time, we're living in the world of matter, rather than a spiritual world, aren't we? We're not like bird flying over the skies totally freely, only watching the snow'd pikes of the ice mountains, breathing the cleanest air, and observing the vast lands... No, we're more like turtles in our material shells.