RLG100Y1 Lecture : 17:09:12 LECTURE #2
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Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d"honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. - karl marx. 3 major religious traditions: western mediterranean traditions, indic traditions, chinese traditions. Presuppositions of western religious tradition jewish, christian & muslim. Historically all come from and located near the middle and near east. They all have their origins in biblical judaism and the hebrew bible. They all central myths like creation (adam & eve), god of abraham, and scripture etc. They believe in god as being transcendent, you cannot see him or touch him and there is no manifestation of him on earth yet he manifests history. He has a plan or a vision of what human history is about.
