Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either. |
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He admired Jesus as a moral teacher but like many of America's revolutionaries, he had a visceral loathing for priestcraft. |
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As Part Two evinced, Paine was much more than a talented popularizer of advanced ideas, a megaphone for the enlightenment project against kingcraft, lordcraft and priestcraft. |
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Furthermore, through their imagistic power, they seek to shatter the ideological illusions propagated by priestcraft and kingcraft. |
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Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft. |
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For all their energised glory, the graphic scores of the Cageans demanded a priestcraft to ensure their authentic interpretation. |
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Among the great Mughals, Akbar attempted in 1581 to promulgate a new religion, Dīn-e Ilāhī, which was to be based on reason and ethical teachings common to all religions and which was to be free from priestcraft. |
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