RS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pietism, Sigmund Freud, Snapple
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Traditions, where certain words, acts, or places are singled out. As special or sacred because they form a whole with their transcendent referent. You cannot live among humans without dealing with religion (barmitsvah, wedding rituals) Everyone feels like they are entitled to an opinion about religion. Not many opinions are backed up by facts. Religious experts are not overly concerned with evidence or guidelines of how we should try to understand religion. Our assumptions about religion are cultural centric (assumptions taken from religion) and influenced by environment. Everyone has an opinion about religion without real facts or knowledge of the subject. Which results in confusion and cacophony of voices. Wait so what should we think of all this . Examine the scope of this confusion by nature. Catholicism in religion: we rely on tradition of opinion without critically examining these traditions.
