It was only yesterday that I managed to see it from the other side, and realised that the reason the liturgy is the way it is is because, to a people for whom oppression and persecution was all too frequently the way of life, it was necessary for them to cling on to the miraculous salvations of the past, as a way of retaining hope.
Also an anti-evolutionary pressure. Most species would have dropped whatever was causing the persecution long ago but oh no, humans are idiots.
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Date: 2010-07-20 03:43 pm (UTC)Also an anti-evolutionary pressure. Most species would have dropped whatever was causing the persecution long ago but oh no, humans are idiots.