When a man says he has no religion, what he really means is that he doesn't practice any religion. Every man, by the very fact that he is a man, must have religion, for he is nothing more than a being composed of a human material body and a spiritual immortal soul, created by a Supreme Being and utterly dependent upon that Supreme Being. This utter dependence on God, this notion ct being bound to Him in some way, is religion in its simplest form, and it is the external manifestation of this essential relationship that constitutes the practice of religion which usually takes the form of prayer and sacrifice. The notion of prayer is common enough, and generally well understood, but there is a lamentable ignorance regarding the meaning and necessity of sacrifice. fellow humans that we are keenly aware of our created origin and utter dependence on cur Creator; that we Wish to take this means of publicly acknowledging our dependence by setting apart something we value, consecrating and offering it te God; and that by its complete destruction or change we manifest the handing over of cur whole being to the' Deity. This act of divine worship has been the most natural thing for man to perform, even from the first beginnings of recorded history, and going still further back, in those dim ages of pre-history.
Scientific investigations have established as fairly certain that the most primitive religion of all peoples was monotheistic, which, as their "minds were drawn away from the worship of the one True God, became pol: theistic, with even many inanimate objects receiving the adoration of the masses. But in every instance there is no lack of evidence that the main type of worship offered to these deities was sacrificial.
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