Use "paganism" in a sentence

1. books about Wizardry, Paganism, Shapeshifting

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2. Jesus came into a Romanized world of paganism

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3. Within the general paganism of the Romans, there were the “mysteries” cults

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4. Were these “Lambs” even minimally aware, that by their sacrifice on the altar of paganism, within sight of the hallowed stones of Solomon, that they would be agents of the saving as well as the building up of the most progressive civilization that the world has ever seen? Probably not, but it is said that they had faith that their God would make of their deaths, some good thing

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5. “In 326, Constantine undertook to transfer the capital of the empire from Rome…the traditional seat of Paganism in the west to the strategic crossroads of the East where Christians formed perhaps half the population in the more important areas…In religious matters, since he himself was not baptized until he lay on his death bed, Constantine was probably attracted to Christianity, whose advance had been so remarkable, as much by the political use he could make of it to restore unity to the empire, as by personal conviction

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6. Moreover, it is probable that he believed that all the monotheists in the empire could be brought eventually to worship a single god in which would be the Father-God of the Christians with the Sun-God of the followers of Mithras, the traditional Roman Paganism, of which as pontifex maximus, he remained head, continued to be tolerated, and a modified emperor-worship was encouraged

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7. If that turns out to be an accurate account, why would he have been insistent upon its inclusion? Is it possible that Revelation, being so full of symbolism and metaphoric references seemed rather similar to the Mysteries of the Mythrian belief system, and would have been of interest to newly recruited acolytes from paganism?

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8. “Nevertheless, Christianity was gradually advanced at the expense of Paganism

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9. Regarding the reference to “Where Satan’s throne is” in the quote from Revelation under the heading “The Compromising Church,” Rome had also been referred to as “The traditional center of Paganism” during the many centuries of its popularity, and then domination

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10. This helps us identify what is pure scripture and what has been imported into our religion as Paganism, practiced as Christianity

11. “Images” refers to “sun-pillars”, which by the way is used by the majority of churches! Blatant paganism and idolatry without the congregation member ever finding the truth regarding these objects and symbols, hidden in plain view right in front of our eyes…

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12. May I be as bold as to request of you, dear reader, never to accept what I say, but please accept what God says and realise that “cremation” is a pagan ritual that is not from God, in fact God only approves this paganism in punishment, when His wrath is ignited!

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13. In a sense, paganism worked to the advantage of the Jews, because Jews were not uniquely “other” in the presence of many pagan cults

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14. Some practice paganism

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15. Likewise did the next and later generations of Christian leaders make such further compromises with paganism that even the Roman emperor Constantine was won to the new religion

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16. And then, when this Christian religion became comatose for more than a thousand years as a result of an overdose of mysteries and paganism, it resurrected itself and virtually reconquered the whole Western world

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17. where he could meditate and be away from the paganism and

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18. The tardy evidence of her involuntary paganism made her even more upset

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19. base paganism,” said the Captain

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20. She always confused us with her knowledge of paganism

21. The sin is not in the mind and heart according to Mohammad but sticks to the body, as the Paganism belief

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22. ISHMAEL AND HAGGAR ARE THE RULERS OF ISLAM UNDER THE COVER OF PAGANISM

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23. Ishmael today lives in the center stage of the entire ceremony of the pilgrimage, Mohammad therefore was the prophet who taught the religion of Ishmael (not Abraham) that has paganism, putting the stone in the very heart of Islam

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24. He was a man applying all the necessary orders given to him by Allah to extend Arabian paganism by recognizing the stone of Al – Kaaba as the supreme deity

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25. This change is silently transpiring in our midst and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of Paganism

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26. paganism and absurdity of the ritual as I usually do in church and wondered why a young woman had so needlessly left us

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27. Worst Than Gods Of Paganism: "Paganism in its worst

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28. he says "The Roman power and the paganism which it supported are now destroyed forever

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29. Paganism, and their own inventions, but mostly the last two

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30. " In the Dark Age, the "church" was a mixture of Christianity, Judaism, Paganism, and their own inventions, but mostly the last two

31. a mixture of Christianity, Judaism, Paganism, and their own inventions, but mostly the last two

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32. "The Roman power and the paganism which it supported ARE NOW DESTROYED FOREVER

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33. The Roman Empire and emperor worship backed by the imperial power were now brought to a final and complete end, never to rise again" On the same page he says, "The Roman power and the paganism which it supported are now destroyed forever

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34. Worst Than Gods Of Paganism: "Paganism in its worst forms has never surpassed, if it has equaled, the savage and terrible descriptions which have been given by Christians of their God

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35. ’ The solemnities and sublimities of devotion are associated with the foulest misrepresentations of the character of God, as when the New Testament idea of the love which 'reconciled the world unto itself’ is exchanged for the detestable paganism of the Roman doctrine of mediation and satisfaction

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36. But surely if Christianity was worth promulgating, even although pious Israelites could be saved before the Advent, much more must it be 'worth while, to promulgate Christianity among those whose knowledge of God has been restricted to the broken lights of a world darkened by the philosophy and priestcraft of Eastern paganism, or by African barbarism

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37. Paul's weighty but neglected statement, before the Areopagus at Athens—when, standing in the very capital of paganism, the centre of the traditions of the heathen world, he surveys the past, and contrasts it with the present

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38. oJ qeopaganism

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39. The spirit of selfglorification and formality, the spirit of a false mystical philosophy, the ambitious and greedy sacerdotal spirit, had already revealed themselves in the churches—and these, coalescing with the remainders of paganism, established the reign of the powers of darkness

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40. Not only was a general corruption of doctrine possible: it was certain, except under one condition—that the reverent study of the New Testament Scriptures should become the absorbing interest of the best intellect of every sacred society in Christendom, and that the churches should burn with a flaming zeal of adhesion to apostolic teaching and example, which would effectually dispel the danger from corrupted Judaism, from Greek and Oriental philosophy, and from popular paganism

41. , the overthrow of paganism, and the removal of the capital of the Empire from Rome

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42. TO A FINAL AND COMPLETE END, never to rise again" On the same page he says "The Roman power and the paganism which it supported ARE NOW DESTROYED FOREVER

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43. Thomas Thayer, "Paganism in its worst forms has never surpassed, if it has equaled, the savage and terrible descriptions which have been given by Christians of their God

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44. And he has also left other directions which the clergy of the village say should not and must not be obeyed because they savour of paganism

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45. Augustine maintains the opposite thesis; he argues that the destruction of the Roman Empire is due, not to the rise of Christianity, but to the vices of Paganism

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46. ' and then in condescension to my paganism, she added: 'He's in a very beautiful place you know by the sea - white cloisters, a bell tower, rows of green vegetables, and a monk watering them when the sun is low

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47. rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism; Paganism, Paulinism; the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such mastery now beamed with the rude energy of a theolatry that was almost ferocious

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48. He had persistently elevated Hellenic Paganism at the expense of Christianity; yet in that civilization an illegal surrender was not certain disesteem

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49. Why? Because the convent, which is common to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Infinite

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50. The condition of the Christian nations in our time has remained as cruel as it was in the times of paganism

51. In many relations, especially in the enslavement of men, it has become even more cruel than in the times of paganism

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52. The inner lives of men in the times of paganism were quite unlike those of the men of our days

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53. But Christianity differs from paganism inasmuch as its requirements are not of an external or negative character; on the contrary, they are such as reverse man's former relations toward his fellow-men, and may call for acts on his part which could not be anticipated, and consequently are not defined

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54. But besides this Christianity, from the time of the wholesale conversion of nations by order of the authorities, as in the days of Constantine, Charlemagne, and Vladimir, there appeared another, a Church Christianity, which was nearer to paganism than to Christ's teaching

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55. People do not Try to Remove the Contradiction between Life and Conscience by a Change of Life, but their Cultivated Leaders Exert Every Effort to Obscure the Demands of Conscience, and Justify their Life; in this Way they Degrade Society below Paganism to a State of Primeval Barbarism—Undefined Attitude of Modern Leaders of Thought to War, to Universal Militarism, and to Compulsory Service in Army—One Section Regards War as an Accidental Political Phenomenon, to be Avoided by External Measures only—Peace Congress—The Article in the Revue des Revues—Proposition of Maxime du Camp—Value of Boards of Arbitration and Suppression of Armies—Attitude of Governments to Men of this Opinion and What they Do—Another Section Regards War as Cruel, but Inevitable—Maupassant—Rod—A Third Section Regard War as Necessary, and not without its Advantages—Doucet—Claretie—Zola—Vogüé

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56. And strange and terrible to say, the cultivated men of our day, the leaders of thought, are in reality with their subtle reasoning drawing society back, not to paganism even, but to a state of primitive barbarism

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