A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
For a Classicist, one must learn to ask the questions in the way that a pagan society did. I think it's very important and tough for many of us who grew up in a Judeo-Christian society.
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Knowledge alone does not stop men from evil. The poor and the ignorant are not the greatest sinners. Man's mind may unfold, his intellect grow more keen, his understanding more profound, yet side by side with this may be a moral degeneration such as existed in pagan Greece and Rome.
For a Christian Aborigine, land rights or the proposed Heritage Protection Act is a symbolic step back to the world of paganism, superstition, fear and darkness.
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
O, there be players that I
have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to
speak it profanely), that, neither having the accent of
Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's
journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
humanity so abominably.
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
There's a lot of fear. Sometimes that old collection of myths and stories about what a Pagan is just stands in the way.
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
Paganism as it's evolving today is really a living tradition.
The religion of Paul was not founded upon a complex of ideas derived from Judaism or from paganism. It was founded upon the historical Jesus.
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable. . .
Cruelty to animals is the degrading attitude of paganism.
Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Of course, Pagan Babies ... Detroit, for some reason, is not big on good Italian restaurants.
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