Bringing a Christmas tree into your home or placing a historic stone at the corner of a new building is an example of

a. how the relationship to the divine in nature persists in contemporary society.
b. rites.
c. superstition.
d. how humans persist in performing useless rituals.


Answer: a

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Wilhelm Schmidt, an Austrian philologist, argued that all humankind once believed

A. that they were spiritually connected to nature. B. that multiple gods existed in the form of natural phenomena. C. in twin gods who represented dark and light. D. in a single High God.

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Aquinas holds that it is an open question whether or not God exists.

a. true b. false

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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