Re: Re: Loskalmi Occupational Keywords

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:45:11 -0400

Nick_at_... wrote:
>
> Jeff Kyer wrote:
>
> > Brithini don't believe in gods, spirits or essences (they might
> > believe in the Invisible God but probably ony in the abstract).
>
> A bit sweeping. The Brithini acknowledge that there are otherworldly
> entities that respond to the peculiar practices known as "theistic
> sacrifice," "animist ecstatic worship," etc. They just do not stoop
> to perform these bizarre rituals themselves. Their sorcery works
> better.

True, but the generalization works well enough for comparison.

> They aren't denying that otherworldly phenomena exist, or that they
> appear to give power to practitioners of bizarre foreign rites. They
> simply treat this as irrelevant to themselves. They worship no gods.
> That makes them atheists.

A better definition than mine, I'll admit.

Jeff

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