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Watching this ep as a religious studies minor thinking about ritual, sacredness, and sacrifice. There is a strong argument for sports as a religion, and AFC teams/fans exemplify every part of it. Particularly when they partake in ritual sacrifice.

This was how the curse fire went, right?

Fellow mythkin, cryptids, other nonhumans of the like, urban legend enthusiasts, and people in the anthropology (such as myself) or religious sciences fields:

reblog and put in the tags a class you have/had that was always fun or funny

Everyone 'knows' that once upon a time the world was pious— that in olden days most people exhibited levels of religious practice and concern that today linger only in isolated social subcultures. But, like so many once-upon-a-time tales, this conception of a pious past is mere nostalgia; most prominent historians of medieval religion now agree that there never was an 'Age of Faith' (Morris 1993; Duffy 1992; Sommerville 1992; Bossy 1985; Obelkevich 1979; Murray 1972; Thomas 1971; Coulton 1938). Writing in the eleventh century, the English monk William of Malmesbury complained that the aristocracy rarely attended church and even the more pious among them 'attended' mass at home, in bed: 'They didn't go to church in the mornings in a Christian fashion; but in their bedchambers, lying in the arms of their wives, they did but taste with their ears the solemnities of the morning mass rushed through by a priest in a hurry (in Fletcher 1997: 476).

Secularization, R.I.P.  Rodney Stark (1999)      

The Torah is hilarious because one moment you read a passage illustrating how the upcoming king is the best person to ever walk the earth, and a couple chapters in he is starting a civil war because his soldier is more popular than him. (I'm talking about Shaul)

I'm currently filling an admission to a VERY prestigious religious - studies program, and I was requested to write about a piece of media which influenced me as a person.

Fools just gave me free rein to infodump on TSH

Stay yourself, stay curious