Evolutionary Religion—Fetishes and Magic (Part 2)

The Israelites never gave up the peculiar Canaanite belief in the stone altar.  They truly believed that the spirit of their God dwelt in such altars, which were in reality fetishes.  The practice of opening a sacred book to let the eye chance upon a passage, the following of which may determine important life decisions or projects, is nothing more nor less than arrant fetishism.

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