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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force…
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to…
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was…
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these…
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
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The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to…
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was…
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Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,…
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him,…
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know…
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Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness…
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A man could not always be where he belonged, though.
— George R. R. Martin
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed…
— Hannah Arendt
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He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they…
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