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Hübbe-Schleiden, on the contrary, holds that fetishism is not a proper designation for a religion, because Judaism and Christianity have their fetishes as well as the nature religions, and says the word fetish should be used as analogous to a word-symbol or emblem.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The alternative will be called delusive, for, in European literature at least, there is no word-symbol that does not imply a spoken sound, and no excellence without euphony.
Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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So perfect is it at times in its natural power that the mind is almost unconscious of the word-symbol in grasping immediately the thought revealed.
The Poems of Henry Timrod Henry Timrod 1847
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Whether this manifests as denial or apathy, it also has a biblical word-symbol … hypocrisy.
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And if I were to give it a biblical word-symbol, I would give it one so full of meaning that it can almost never be translated … I would call this one "the Realm of God".
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Whether this manifests as denial or apathy, it also has a biblical word-symbol … hypocrisy.
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When it is connected to the power to enforce the pre-conception, it becomes racism, sexism, ageism, etc … Theologically, allowing the symbol to replace the complex reality that the symbol is only supposed to imperfectly represent has a word-symbol of its own.
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When it is connected to the power to enforce the pre-conception, it becomes racism, sexism, ageism, etc … Theologically, allowing the symbol to replace the complex reality that the symbol is only supposed to imperfectly represent has a word-symbol of its own.
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And if I were to give it a biblical word-symbol, I would give it one so full of meaning that it can almost never be translated … I would call this one "the Realm of God".
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It's almost like a logo becoming a grapheme, a word-symbol, like in eastern languages.
Be A Design Group 2009
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