“they glorified not their own bodies, but the memories of those who were now glorified by Christ.”
And this is where we part ways, dangus. We are not to glorify memories of the dead. The dead are the dead and have no need of anything from the living.
That’s a respectable position for you to take. But the irony is that shortly after the Reformers destroyed all the bodies of the Saints, they went and glorified the likes of Martin Luther, King James, King Henry VIII, and their descendents in America went on to glorify George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Stonewall Jackson, and so forth. And whereas the Saints were glorified in a context that made plain that their glory was the reflected glory of Christ, these latter glorifications glory solely in the image of the dead.