descartes' mind/body dualism

I personally am not a fan of Descartes' assumptions and conclusions about God being a demonic, and deceiving creator. I believe his value of logic and the dualism of the mind and body to be sensible, but to doubt all senses and to then conclude that God uses us as creatures to be tricked and toiled with is simply arrogant. It seems that he esteems the mind, but sees the body as a product of evil, and is used only to deceive our minds. It is true that we, as human beings are essentially minds, in that our soul constitutes who we are as individuals, but we are human because of our bodies. Therefore, although our minds and bodies are two separate entities, humans are a harmonic combination of body and mind. In contrast to Descartes' belief, we indeed are our minds, but we are also our bodies, "and God said that it was good."