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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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some A are not B. (F) Contraposition
A) Some B are not A. (Und.) B) Some B are not non-A. (F) C) Some A are B. (T) D) Some non-B are not non-A. (F) E) Some non-B are not non-A. (Und.)
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.
Aquinas holds that it is an open question whether or not God exists.
a. true b. false
The rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are positive rights, not negative rights
Indicate whether the statement is true or false