The two public experiences are Ordinary and Extraordinary experience. Both of these experiences are likely to take place in the presence of a number of people or a large crowd of people. ... Specifically the problem with an ordinary experience is that what is out of the ordinary for one person may seem perfectly normal, to another. ... The advantages of trying to prove the existence of God from a conversion experience is the fact that the change in a person's life is evident and the change can be verified by the people who are close to that person. ...

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Like epics in the classical literary sense, the movie focuses on a heroic character and his journey upon which the large number of people depend. ... Also, looking at another angle of the supernatural power, the god can be stronger if people are more fearful of them, like how Ares seems to be stronger than Zeus, which may be due to the fact that people may not pray to Zeus very often anymore, but they still pray to Ares – the god of war – since they think they are in war at that time. ... Even with Perseus' villagers, before the invasion of the fire-belching monster, everyone ...

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On a general type of definition, we can say that we speak of Satanism when we refer to people, groups or movements which, whether they are isolated or more or less structured and organized, practice in some form of the cult (e.g.: adoration, veneration, evocation) of that entity indicated in the Bible by the name of demon, devil, or Satan. ... Some of them are connected to another, while others are not; certain groups are unknown even to those same people who frequent the satanic environment. ... However, in general it can be said that the satanic rites serve the purpose of the celebrant, and ...

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Durkheim associates the sacred with the clan or society and the profane to individual; however Eliade "define the sacred as the sphere not of society, but of the supernatural – the realm beyond earthly life, full of changeless perfection, order, power, and beauty [and] the profane, by contrast, is not just the personal, but the entire changeable, chaotic, often dreary realm of ordinary human earthly life, stained by struggle and suffering and bordered by death" (272). ... A fundamental aspect of Weber's approach is therefore the importance he gives to religion as an influ...

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He argued that evidence from people's experience of observing the world showed that the laws of nature are unchanging and fixed, they are not subject to being altered. ... Hume does not accept chance or supernatural intervention hence he appeals for us to go with the evidence we are given and to consider which state of affairs is more probable (probability is key in Hume's theoretical argument), a miracle or an ordinary explanation. ... Moreover Hume asserted that we should be wary of evidence because of "the passion of surprise and wonder arising from miracles" is an "agreeable not...

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Religion seems to have lost the impact and importance in people's lives in today's world where science is the direction where people look for answers to their questions. ... Some prohibitions from the past used to be part of a civilization, but are prohibited now; and some ordinary daily activities from today might be prohibited in the years to come. This leads to "the external coercion eventually becoming internalized, and this turns people into the vehicles of civilization." ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach to these ideas the values they are claimed ...

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