Sentences with phrase «between dead religion»

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.

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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.»
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