Word: worship
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Popular opinion usually regards the female as a member of the species with a greater degree of religiosity. Women are often considered more likely than men to accept doctrines of religious faith, and many clergymen will ascertain that women outnumber men in attendance at worship services. Frequently, the everyday explanation of this phenomenon is that the female is by nature a more sentimental and less rational being than the male...
...reinclusion in conversation of the subject of God. "The subject is much less frequent and less easy in our conversation than it appears to have been to those who were here before us a hundred, two hundred, or three hundred years ago." He asserted that it "becomes man to worship...
Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. Intellectual Panjandrum Barzun rallies his peers to rout the termites of egalitarianism, mass education, artiness, science worship and similar pests that are destroying, as he sees it, the pillars of civilization...
...political embodiment of Greek humanism was the city-state, which provided order instead of anarchy, freed the individual from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult of the family, including the blood feud. The major demerit was that the Hellenes soon "took to worshipping their city-states as gods, instead of treating them simply as public utilities." Inevitably, this produced the first Hellenic martyr, Socrates, who compelled Athens "to choose between respecting his conscience and taking his life...