munch
T town, Oklahoma USA
Posted: Jun 4, 2008, 12:33 AM CST
1. It's an old "burn a prayer and the smoke goes up to heaven," belief. Several other cultures do it as well.
2. Yes, though sometimes explainable by simple psychological means.
3. Protestants do it too, just much more rarely. It's not something we like to discuss because we're not the Devil's publicity agents.
4. Directly or not, most of us do, IMHO. I think the voice of darkness and destruction (internal or external) is so wrapped in our psychie that we don't recognize it beyond a certain point.