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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye

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Der wesentliche Dienst der Kultur für eine Religion besteht darin, den intellektuellen Götzendienst zu zerstören, die immer wiederkehrende Tendenz in der Religion, das Objekt ihrer Anbetung durch das gegenwärtige Verständnis und die Formen der Annäherung an dieses Objekt zu ersetzen.

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