Idols

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:11:53 +1300

Alex Ferguson:

>[The Masloi] could even still _be_ animists, and simply sacrificing to the
>"foreign gods" by (gasp) misapplied worship.

Any solution involving wholesale misapplied worship is almost certainly wrong.

>Key question is, did their _practices_ change (and if so how much), or
>simply their notional object?

Their practices changed. They speak of being forced to offer sacrifices.

• --Peter Metcalfe

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