"Priestcraft" is a word in ENGLISH
Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in
an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by
priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives
or credulity of others.
Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.
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One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts …
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