Sentences with phrase «because paganism»

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I guess because the eggs and rabbits have too much connection to paganism that Russell Stover has decided to market specifically «Christian» Easter candy this year.

If this is true, paganism will cease to exist in this sense, because the West has begun to enter the history of our whole planet.

Moreover, we may say that paganism continues to exist not because it has rejected Christianity, but because it has not yet met it in a sufficiently impressive encounter.

They seemed to argue that such things should be abandoned because they came from paganism.

However, to denounce a Christian tradition or practice as rooted in paganism simply because a similar practice appears in ancient pagan rituals is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I think the case could easily be made that Murrow and Eldredge are actually calling us back to a form of Biblical manhood because the most common conception of «manhood» in Christianity today is one that borrowed themes and ideas from various forms of «paganism.»

Atheism, pantheism, and paganism have, it would seem, made far more inroads within the Jewish community than Christianity, but Jews who adhere to these religious inclinations, because they do not join a rival covenant community, largely escape the censure of the Jewish community.

So I came across your website because my Christian love for classical paganism.

Because converts were steeped in paganism, the church needed time to wean them away from their former lifestyle and to teach them the Christian lifestyle.

In Adamson's account, Augustine's legacy looms largest in this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.»

«Because of that dichotomy, paganism is automatically seen as satanic.»

That, he says, is a big reason why paganism is seeing a revival: «If nothing else, because of the impending destruction of our environment, and our focus on finding a way to live in balance with nature.»

Another Rabbi said that God had to act fast at this point, not only to save these people from slavery, but also because his plan for the salvation of the world, passed through these Hebrew slaves, and if they were left any longer in Egyptthis plan would be beyond repair, since the Hebrews were in danger of succumbing to the infamous immorality, decadence and paganism of the Egyptians.

In Rabbi Johanan's exegesis (Megillah 13a), Mordecai is so insistently called a Jew «because he abjured paganism [«avodah zarah], for everyone who abjures paganism is called a Jew; as is written (Daniel 3:12): `... Jews... serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.