Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and … - William Robertson Smith

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William Robertson Smith

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper. . . no one cared what he believed about its origin.

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Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.

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The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

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