However, in general it can be said that the satanic rites serve the purpose of the celebrant, and comprise a collection of gestures and words aiming at provoking a change in situations and events which are thought to be impossible to achieve by ordinary means and instruments. ... Satanic rites in the judgement of the church The ordinary action of Satan consists in leading us into sin, which is a culpable loss of freedom. ...

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One of the most influential theories applied to religion is built upon Emile Durkheim's analysis of the sacred in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1965). ... Durkheim affirmed that religion developed in society when a distinction was made concerning the sacred-the ultimate concern that is transcendental and extraordinary-and the profane-that which is ordinary. ...

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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. ... With more philosophical analysis of Wiles' argument it can be proposed that the problem of evil has been solved; God does not intervene either because he cannot or because he is willingly bound by the laws of nature not too intervene. ...

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