There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.