1. The Australian Aborigine, the African animist, the Shintoist, even the Buddhist, all teach variations on this same theme.

2. True, adherents of the religions of Christendom would bristle at the idea that their display of devotion is ancestor worship; but the Buddhist, the Shintoist, or the devout African smiles.

3. (Genesis 3:1-5, 16-19; Romans 5:12) For example, Shintoists identify sin with filth that can easily be wiped away by a swing of a priest’s stick, which has paper or flax attached to its tip.