"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national……" — William Robertson Smith
"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
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William Robertson Smith
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18 Quotes by William Robertson Smith
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no…
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis,…
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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…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a…
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all…
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people...…
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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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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires…
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
— John Henrik Clarke
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We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have…
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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason,…
— Louis Agassiz
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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