ATD 16, 436 + redux

[Mark Kohut]

Premise: The voyage into the Inner Sands is (partly; always more in TRP) a bit of an allegory for our search for the Divine, the Religious; our search for transcendant Meaning.
   
  Now, "introduce an element of weaponry"..
   
  When did violence get linked with Religion?   "The association of religion with violence does 
  not begin with 9/11. Among theorists of religion, the association goes back at least to J. G.
  Frazer, author of ''The Golden Bough", Where for Frazer religious violence is directed towards the physical world, for contemporary theorists it is directed toward the human world." " The Frazerian Roots of contemporary theories of religion and violence" by Robert
  A. Segal, Religion Magazine 37 (2007) 4-25
                "fighting each other".AtD
   
   
   

       
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