Lindsey Renoll
Blog Topic: Landscapes of the Sacred II
“'All sacred things must have their place,’ Claude Levi-Strauss noted. ‘Being in their place is what makes them sacred. If taken out of their place, even in thought, the entire order of the universe would be destroyed’” (Lane, 76). Again another strong quote stood out to me while reading Lane’s book. This one though caused me to actually think to understand what exactly is being said. I’ve come to the conclusion that it means something alone the lines of, religious things belong to a certain spot in a person’s mind and when the person begins taking them and mixing it into another spot, completely unrelated, then the religious thing is no longer religious or meaningful. I’m still not 100% certain what exactly this quote actually means but that’s what I got from it. I like to think of it when people use their religious views to argue against something completely unrelated, in a lot of cases certain political arguments involve religious, but at that point it isn’t religious, it’s just an excuse to defend what the person is arguing.
Blog Topic: Landscapes of the Sacred II
“'All sacred things must have their place,’ Claude Levi-Strauss noted. ‘Being in their place is what makes them sacred. If taken out of their place, even in thought, the entire order of the universe would be destroyed’” (Lane, 76). Again another strong quote stood out to me while reading Lane’s book. This one though caused me to actually think to understand what exactly is being said. I’ve come to the conclusion that it means something alone the lines of, religious things belong to a certain spot in a person’s mind and when the person begins taking them and mixing it into another spot, completely unrelated, then the religious thing is no longer religious or meaningful. I’m still not 100% certain what exactly this quote actually means but that’s what I got from it. I like to think of it when people use their religious views to argue against something completely unrelated, in a lot of cases certain political arguments involve religious, but at that point it isn’t religious, it’s just an excuse to defend what the person is arguing.
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