Sentences with phrase «about pagan»

SpookyMrsGreen is about pagan housewife: Mindful parenting, ethical consumerism and modern pagan lifestyle.

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Mountain View, CA About Blog Comprehensive up - to - date news coverage about Pagan, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

SpookyMrsGreen is about pagan housewife: Mindful parenting, ethical consumerism and modern pagan lifestyle.

All of this and we haven't even talked about Pagan Min's lieutenants.

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The eventual selection of Dec 25, made perhaps as soon as 273, shows a convergence of Origen's matter about pagan gods and the church's id of God's boy with the celestial sunlight.

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SpookyMrsGreen is about pagan housewife: Mindful parenting, ethical consumerism and modern pagan lifestyle.

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

, The most striking feature of the myths about the pagan gods is the way they speak of persons and events in an invisible world as if they were like those with which we are familiar on earth.

Adam, if you don't want to be called a heathen, how about pagan?

, and I wrote one specifically about the Pagan roots of our Christmas traditions (Christmas Redemption).

Jack, Casey is referring to, for example, the condemnation in Romans being about pagan idol worship and not orientation.

Note: After doing a lot of reading, research, and thinking on the topics in this post, I wrote a follow - up post about the pagan roots of Christianity here and some of my concluding thoughts about Zeitgeist the movie.

Though the Ctatholics are definetly wrong there is something very flawed with his logic about pagan stories being bundled together they was huge part of the bible they was in many places the hebrews came and went is it possible pagans knew the story of Abraham and Isaac of course I am sure word spread like wild fire not to mention is how do you know if they are pagan stories or true stories that the pagans decided to tell sounds to me like he just doesn't want to be held accountable.

I had reservations about the pagan origins of the festivities, and I was honestly frustrated by the powerlessness I felt under the weight of tradition.

Given the things that I've said about pagan elements in the Christian church, this might surprise you, but the old pagan holidays are actually good occasions to contrast the message of Yehoshua with the old pagan beliefs.

We're going to try to answer that for you this morning from Luke 2 and some other passages, but let's begin with some background about the Pagan origins of Christmas.

They do this because they know about the pagan roots of «Easter» and think that it detracts from what the significance of the resurrection of Jesus.

«Americans never thought twice (or even once) about the pagan names attached to their hardware,» McDougall writes.

it is not about pagans because it would say idolatry it says about orientation / / / nice try..

so why post about pagans.

Not exact matches

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

However, Father Christmas and his other European variations are modern incarnations of old pagan ideas about spirits who traveled the sky in midwinter, Hutton said.»

This phenomenon of the baptized Catholic pagan is an impediment to the Church's mission, for it suggests that the Church is not serious about the truths it proposes or the consequences of living (and not living) by those truths.

All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.

@Know - what: Slavery and abuse of women were common and norm in ALL pagan world until Christian missionaries made fuss about it.

New age bookstores who catered to pagans were often the worst and the owners and employees who practiced paganism would spread lies about my belief system.

How about some articles about Afro - Carribean faiths, or Ancestor veneration in Asia, or neo-greek pagans, or Sikhs, or Chritisian «heretical» sects like the arians etc etc etc etc

Despite all that we owe to the Greeks and Romans, the ancient, pagan world seems not to have cared much about the individual as such.

I think Simpleton Americans should stop pretending knowing anything about Christianity or American heritage because you guys have become thoroughly pagan and Bible - illiterate.

Yeah so what, it's talking about using sex to worship a pagan god.

What about exploring the faith of Hindus or Buddhists or Pagans or Wiccans?

1) It is maintained by some that the relationship was essentially analogical - sequential: that is, imperial ideology did not directly shape ideas about Christ but, by virtue of the obvious analogies between some key elements of both, it made the ideas about Christ preached by the early Christians easily comprehensible and attractive to pagans.

@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

I was just thinking about heretics and pagans and witches yesterday.

A 2008 survey counted about 342,000 Wiccans in the United States and nearly as many who identify simply as «pagans,» a significant increase from the last American Religious Identification Survey, taken in 2001.

(See posts about Hanukkah, Pagan Holidays, Easter, Mithras)

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

While there are «pagan» stories of resurrection, they are always stories about deities rising from the dead, not human beings.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

The only group I've seen get the same level of invective leveled at atheists online are witches and other Pagans, but that seems to only happen when there aren't any atheists milling about and the Pagans have repeatedly proven to a) know Christian theology and scripture better and b) remain calm, rational and compassionate yet resolute in their rejection of that theology.

Before signing off, I think it's important to remind everyone that while I've tried my best to write about Modern Paganism from a variety of perspectives, it's a very subjective thing, and you might hear completely different answers from other Pagans.

He was so successful that it was said that when he became bishop he found only seventeen other Christians there and that when he died, about thirty years later, there were only seventeen pagans.

So I confess that, perhaps unfairly, I felt some trepidation about inviting a pagan to participate in our interview series.

Some of Jason's favorite topics to talk about include the Horned God, theintersection of rock music and spirituality, and Modern Pagan history.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.