Enthusiastically chatting about the difference
between dead religion and living faith, I was distracted, and then I removed my glasses, so I couldn't see what was happening in the mirror.
Not exact matches
Folklore and
religion, therefore, emphasized the «spirit of the soil» as against the scientific view that saw soil as
dead matter.158 It is this close relationship
between humankind and the earth that led L. H. Bailey to remark,
In the primitive
religion that lay behind Yahweh's introduction to Israel, the
dead had been at least «knowing ones» to be consulted, vivid significance existed in the popular picture of Sheol and its inhabitants, and active commerce was carried on
between the
dead and the living.
«A fundamental difference
between religious and scientific thought is that the received beliefs in
religion are ultimately based on revelations or pronouncements, usually by some long -
dead prophet or priest... Dogma is interpreted by a caste of priests and is accepted by the multitude on faith or under duress.»