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Emperor Constantine, they said, had changed the date of the Sabbath as a compromise to appease the pagans who celebrated their heathen debaucheries on Sunday
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Second, we can see examples of even the pagans recognizing this in the Old Testament
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They consider Baptists to be fellow Christians, they think we are pagans
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Jews, than pagans and than beasts
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If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect
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The majority of the people he ruled were pagans, and while the Christians were a fast growing sect they were still a minority for the totality of his reign
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When Constantine paganised the Christians and Christianised the pagans in his roman empire, the traditional ground burial replaced cremation and remained like this for approximately 1500 years
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that these priests were heathens or pagans
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If the pagan says that the universe had a beginning, we ask: What were the pagan gods doing before that time? If the pagan insists that the universe had no beginning, we ask: When was the first pagan god born? Who were its parents? How did pagan gods gain control of a universe that existed before them? Why do pagan gods care about human sacrifices if they already possess and control everything? Why do pagan gods allow Christian men to rule the warm European lands rich in food and wine, while leaving the pagans only the frozen lands of the north? Why is the Christian world dominant, while those clinging to primitive beliefs are a dwindling minority?
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These questions, and many others that it would be tedious to mention, are put to the leaders and common people of the pagans, not in an offensive and irritating way, but calmly and with great moderation
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There was a so-called "holy tree" growing there, which the pagans claimed was personally guarded by Thor! I ordered that old oak to be chopped down, and called out for Thor to strike me with one of his famous thunder-bolts, if he existed
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The local pagans who were watching from behind the line of Frankish soldiers looked up at the sky in anticipation of my doom
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BISHOP HIGBOLD: You could serve the Virgin Mary in the scriptorium, making beautiful books to bring her fame to distant pagans, or to adorn the best Northumbrian churches
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When Sister Wilthburga observed that a group of the pagans was approaching our building, I stopped ringing it
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Two items needed to be secured, at any cost, from the unholy hands of pagans: the Gospels of Saint Cuthbert, and his remains
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Pagans ran after us!
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It was fear of their pollution at the hands of pagans that filled my soul with panic and my body with a desperate energy! We ran through the gate, bearing Cuthbert's ancient coffin as if it weighed less than a basket of dry laundry
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Do not with pagans intermarry,
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to the pagans smite
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against the pagans who did raid
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At his death he did more pagans slay
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confrontation with the Pagans of Mecca in the second year
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While the Muslims were horribly persecuted by the Pagans of
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Mecca, ALLAH guaranteed that the Pagans would be defeated
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Before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad, the pagans used
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It is important to realize that Gentile converts were former pagans who had served Greek and
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the one preaching to pagans, Yosip was beside me praying in the
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Both were celebrated some thousand years before Jesus was born, and therefore have their roots in the pagans that practiced them
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In addition, Christian girls were prevented from marrying pagans, Jews or heretics; yet for all the strictness, slavery was still sanctioned
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Angry Christians turned this into a derogatory term because they couldn‘t adequately monitor the Pagans who continued to practice their Folk Heritage
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The point here is not that we modern pagans should mindlessly ape the Mayans’
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Besides the deep respect which most of us modern pagans feel for nature, we can do this by paying attention to what we’re doing when we are touching or handling things; by being grateful to our tools for the help they give us; by lifting things gently and placing them where we want them; by dealing with things with the same delicacy and respect with which we ourselves would prefer to be treated
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Nathanael: Well technically its the pagans philip, but we could get into the
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We lost the meaning of the birth of Christ and replaced it with credit cards to celebrate like the ancient pagans of buying gifts and having parties, as in the days of the Roman Empire
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Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in
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Hagar had Allah stuck in her belief grown through the desert’s pagans Gods
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The three goddesses of Mecca are pagans and ignorant
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Therefore, should be beheading or slaughtered, because they are pagans awaiting punishments from Allah
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would be easier to convert pagans to Christianity!
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atheists and other pagans!”
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15) They have made many statements glorifying the communists, the pagans, the pharaohs and the Indians, who have the mightiest spirits, according to their claim
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the pagans, they are called martyrs for the faith
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If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect
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“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife
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A sublime supplication to the Creator from the Son after being jeered, insulted, spat upon, punched, beaten, scourged, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross and speared, such that He was fatally wounded by Roman soldiers, Gentiles, Jews, Pagans, Elders, Teachers of the law and Chief Priests
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crueler than anything the pagans ever even thought of
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many times crueler than anything the pagans ever even
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Many Pagans believed the soul has always existed and must always exist, that
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The inescapable conclusion would be that the pagans were
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This is no surprise for it is just what the pagans teach and is the source
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Solomon the Pagans that were all around Israel believed in reincarnation
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His question might have been to the Pagans asking them how do they know about
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defeated saints and so-called pagans were actually the “good guys” while the Vatican and all three
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anything the pagans ever even thought of
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for it is just what the pagans teach, and is the source from which the church fathers
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knows that the dead go to Heaven? In the time of Solomon the Pagans that were all
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as a higher or lower life was taught by the Pagans that was all around Israel at that time
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His question might have been to the Pagans asking them how did they know about
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not al pagans use magic
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Their hope was that by giving the pagans a chance to still be able to celebrate something that more of them would convert to Christianity
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Pagans believed the soul has always existed and must always exist, that the
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The inescapable conclusion would be that the pagans were right, and all that
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it is just what the pagans teach and is the source from which the church
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the time of Solomon the Pagans that were all around Israel believed in
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might have been to the Pagans asking them how do they know about
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doctrine of the immortal soul has been strongly influenced by pagans such as
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The inescapable conclusion would be that the pagans were right, and all that I am; all that I
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This is no surprise for it is just what the pagans teach and is the source from which the church
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But was Solomon asking whether anyone knows that the dead go to Heaven? In the time of Solomon the Pagans that were all around Israel believed in reincarnation; the resurrection and life after death was not known about in the Old Testament, “Our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10)
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(2) Dilemma number two: Many pagans count girl babies of little or no use, and kill many of them
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(12) FUNK AND WAGNALL ENCYCLOPEDIA: “The Christian doctrine of the immortal soul has been strongly influenced by pagans such as Plato and Aristotle
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worshipped like the Pagans of old
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It is sin which fills men with undefined alarms, and leads them to think they do God’s service by depicting Him as pagans conceive of their terrific which has not been preceded by some deep sense of danger and of guilt; but it is through loving delight, not by overwhelming fear, that the power of sin is to be extinguished in the soul
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Who, then, can wonder that a Christianity so diminished in its forces both to win and to appall, so pale and so colorless, naturally maintains a doubtful fight with the stiff-necked pagans of Asia? Is there not required a doctrine that commends itself more cogently to the reason and to the conscience of men, of the teachers as well as the taught, to their imagination not less than to their affections,—a love so real, so tender and intelligible—a terror so soul-subduing, so near at hand, and so appreciably just,—as to shake if it cannot vanquish the stoutest resistance of the heathen;—a hope of speedy victory to the Church, sufficient to restore the death-daring energies of the first century, and a courage founded on overpowering conviction which would engage in closer conflict with Eastern Buddhism, and the stolid positivism of Confucius? That 'throneless king,’ as the Chinese call him, would soon, I trust in God, lose much of his, opposing power, before a Savior preached as if He were the very JESUS of the gospels, 'coming again quickly’ to be the Lord of the world
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Dilemma number two: Many pagans count girl babies of little or no use and kill many of them
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The plotter pagans were fooled and
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compared to pagans this was a very
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dead pagans are preserved in the
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accounts and reports of this cowardly attack by pagans the holy prophet
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Because of this treaty the Pagans were not in any position to help these Jews against Muslims
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the pagans to violate their promise to Muslims They joined and supported
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Pagans of the British Isles
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I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects
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All our arguing with him would not avail; let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending
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There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches
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But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that
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Ahoy, there! Tashtego, Queequeg, Daggoo! What say ye, pagans! Will ye give me as much blood as will cover this barb?" holding it high up
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The existence of a Christian would be as secure among pagans as it would be among those of his own faith
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A man of our time need but buy himself a Gospel for three kopeks and read Christ's clear words to the woman of Samaria, which are not subject to any other interpretation, about the Father needing no worshippers in Jerusalem, neither in this mountain, nor in that, worshippers in spirit and in truth, or the words about a Christian's being obliged to pray, not in temples, as the pagans do, and in the sight of all, but in secret, that is, in his closet, or that a disciple of Christ must not call any one father or teacher,—a man needs but read these words, to become convinced that no ecclesiastic pastors, who call themselves teachers in opposition to Christ's teaching, and who quarrel among themselves, form an authority, and that that which the churchmen teach us is not Christianity
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Not only the Christians, but all the pagans thousands of years ago knew the evil of war and the good of peace,—consequently the advice given to the preachers of the Gospel to preach on the evil of war and the good of peace on every third Sunday in December is quite superfluous
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And these contradictions do not result, as may appear, because people pretend to be Christians, when in reality they are pagans, but, on the contrary, because people lack something, or because there is some force which keeps them from being what they already feel themselves to be in their consciousness and what they actually wish to be
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Not only Christians but all pagans were fully aware of the benefits of peace and of the evils of war thousands of years ago, so that the advice to the ministers of the gospel to preach against the evils of war and to advocate the benefits of peace every third Sunday in December is quite superfluous
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Not only Christians, but pagans, thousands of years ago, all recognized the evil of war and the blessing of peace
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Pond in particular, for teaching the English language to the ignorant heathens in our midst, stamps the majority of that club as a body of men who, in point of civilization, stand away below the ignorant, helpless pagans at whom they profess to strike
