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LanternWaste

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6. Nope. There is a relevant and specific difference between the two.

Reply to jrthin (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 18, 2018, 06:52 PM

Apr 2018

Nope. There is a relevant and specific difference between the two.

This is pre-Anthro 101, basic stuff, but as you may need the primer, you should start with Howard Colvin's History of Religion then History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade and finish off with Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods by Fuller Torrey.

Those three academic books often result in a divorce between a human and their simplistic bumper-stickers.

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