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Originally posted by pinkie
I definitely think so. He quotes the book of Mark, in one of his books on receiving the blood of Christ, and goes on to talk about blood :
"Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color. " – Mark Ryden
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A few years ago, I remarked to an atheist friend of mine that I was struck by the primitive magical symbolism in a hymn we used to sing in the Baptist church when I was a kid:
There is power! Power! Wonder-working power in the blood of the lamb....
This fellow prided himself on being a skeptic (he has published an article in
The Skeptical Inquirer) and a debunker of myths, and he readily saw the remnants of a primitive belief structure in the modern (late 19th to early 20th century) lyrics.