think "we've done more work & we're worse off for it" eating corn dishes prepared ways other than exploded. also far tastier than kablammo potato
read a history of religious ideas, volume 3: from muhammad to the age of reforms by mircea eliade, translated by hiltebeitel & apostolos-cappadona
in his celebrated discussion with the imam of boukhara, genghis khan said to him: "the entire universe is the house of god, to what advantage is it to designate a particular place (for example, mecca) in order to go there?"
on the solarization of celestial gods, see eliade, patterns
their polycephalic representations of divinities and spirits
as augustine proclaims in his famous sermon: roma non pereat si romani non pereant! in other words, it is the quality of men which assures the permanence of an institution, and not the inverse
"move not thy tongue with it to hasten it; ours it is to gather, and to recite it, so when we recite it, follow thou its recitation" (75:16-18). in other words, all personal improvisation of the quran is prohibited
they accused the scholastics of having sacrificed religion to philosophy, and christ to aristotle
the procession of flagellants multiplied themselves in order to move god to pity
the kallikantzari, monsters who haunt greek villages during the twelve days (between christmas and epiphany) and who prolong the mythico-ritual scenario of the centaurs of classical antiquity
and they chew as much garlic as possible
lutheranism has been "from its beginning the child of book printing": with the help of this vehicle, luther was able to transmit his message with force and precision from one end of europe to the other
the accused publically threw a copy of this bull into the fire, and published, one after another, four books which rank among the most brilliant and most important of his total work
june 1522, martin luther wrote: "i do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone, even by the angels. one who does not receive my doctrine cannot come to salvation"..his violent intolerance reflects the zeal of yahweh and the latter's jealousy with regard to humankind
when luther's theses were declared heretical, erasmus retorted that an error is not necessarily a heresy, and asked catholic theologians to respond to luther's interpretations rather than condemn them. because he proclaimed the necessity of dialogue, erasmus was accused - first by luther, then by rome - of "neutralism," indeed of a lack of courage
above all, the shamanic type of tambourine
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