Sentences with phrase «savage idea of man»

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

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The idea of the «slain god» was a central theme in Frazer's Golden Bough, where he argued that Christianity's story is merely one of myriad «savage» myths and superstitions about deities killed by men.
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