Sentences with phrase «ancient pagans»

This sounds like some sort of ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.

For extra lulz try telling them something like you're a member of ancient Pagan religion of Slovakia or something.

The New Agers are an amalgamation of multiple and varying ancient pagan religions dating back to Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, and so on...

Halloween's roots lie in ancient pagan rituals celebrating the end of the harvest season, and the festivity evolved into an important day -LSB-...]

It comes from ancient pagan beliefs; not from the Bible.

What might have eventually passed into oblivion (as all other ancient pagan holidays), is now a recurring celebration of eroticism, pre-marital sex, and fertility — all in the name of «Saint Valentine.»

Halloween is the holiday equivalent of Wicca — a 20th century invention that pretends to have ancient pagan roots.

A future Billy Graham will take cues, then, from the Apostle Paul and his outreach to ancient pagan culture.

The modern religion being pushed on us is a sick ancient Pagan Sun worship religion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Christ.

It kinda became their god, and they interpret what this god says pretty much exactly the same way ancient pagan priests interpreted what their stone gods said.

For that reason most ancient pagan philosophers rejected the Christian Creator.

Your pagan friend who had joined in the discussion a few days ago is quite right to question the compromising nature of the type of «christianity» that allows for ancient pagan customs to have entered in and to remain.

I have an idea I am pursuing about ancient pagan myths and the Hebrew Bible, and this book seemed like a good resource to help my research.

European man before Galileo — whether ancient pagan or more recent Christian — thought of the world as controlled by plan and purpose.

In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.

This integrity of the instinctive reactions, this freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling.

Discover ancient pagan and Christian monuments, the splendors of Baroque and Renaissance palaces and churches, and the surprising urban additions of the modern city.

Its roots are found in ancient pagan belief.

In my own writing, I often use the word pagan to refer to ancient pagan religions of Europe and the Middle East.

The religious festival of All Hallows» Eve seems to have ancient Pagan roots, but in the church it marks the start of three days of remembrance for the hallows (saints) and family members who have died.

The Bible paints a pretty negative picture of ancient pagans.

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.

First off it was a pagan holiday and Christ was likely born in the spring so it was the Christians that latched onto an ancient pagan holiday not the other way around.

Father Tom Brodie, a Dominican priest, in his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religions.

This should be kept in mind in recalling another ancient pagan way of looking at the universe.

The ancient pagan rituals were still «god» based....

Without a living experience of God, then the pagan claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).

I know that it was originally an ancient pagan ritual, and their was a St. Nicholas, and Jesus was really thought to be born in some other seasaon (don't remember which) yada yada yada, but it was incorported here as a Christian holiday.

Strangely, this response is not that much different from the ancient pagan religious practice of offering blood sacrifices.

For the first time last year, the government of Britain recognized druidism, an ancient pagan belief system, as a religion.

Such a person is still participating in the ancient pagan celebration of Yule, but just omitting certain parts like the tree.

That sounds an awful lot like some ancient Pagan sacrificial rituals where worshippers pour the blood of bulls, goats, and lambs over their heads.

The dignity of man - and therefore the wrongness of killing innocent human beings - stands at the heart of natural law in the Christian dispensation, in contrast with the ancient pagan world.

An interesting mix of drama and history, that seems to well illustrate the differences between these ancient pagan warriors beliefs and modern day morals.

An interesting mix of drama and history, that seems to well illustrate the differences between these ancient pagan warriors beliefs and

When Claire, played by Caitriona Balfe, stumbles into an ancient pagan stone circle, she finds herself mysteriously transported back to 1743 Scotland and into the middle of a struggle between a group of Highlanders and British Redcoats.

Intrigued by the limited human physicality, the artist constructs and shapes hybrid bodies which resemble the ancient pagan traditions which saw the concept of the body from more spiritual perspective.

Manu Fico and the right John the Baptist, ancient pagan and Christian symbols of fertility and initiation, used here to spiritualise the matter of contemporary art.