Sentences with phrase «as pagan»

Drawing upon the language of abstract expressionism as well as pagan history and folklore, British artist Jessica Warboys makes use of the sea and its actions upon mineral pigments in the creation of her large - scale work.

Works will reference elements as disparate as pagan ritual, archaeological excavations, the art of corn dolly making, mimicry, the carnivalesque and theatre, ancient stone monuments such as Stonehenge, and Samuel Beckett's televised work Quad 1981.

The Old Gods releases on Mac and PC May 28, and players can choose to rule as a Pagan or Zoroastrian, and it also focuses on «the dreaded Vikings and their tradition of pillage and adventure.»

The cultists are based around the same enemy archetypes as Pagan Min's army: the one that throws Molotovs, the heavy one, the one with the bow and arrow, and so on.

He may not be as memorable as Pagan Min or Vaas were, but he's excellently written, portrayed, and supported well by his siblings Jacob, John and Faith, who are again all brilliantly portrayed and developed throughout.

The Far Cry series has become synonymous with incredible villains we love to hate with such incredible bad guys as Pagan Min, Vaas and, the most deadly of them all, malaria.

Troy Baker again proves why he gets the amount of work he does with his masterful performance as Pagan Min.

It's a fascinating character dynamic, and makes even more sense if you replay the game a second time as Pagan's speeches via radio and even his initial introduction come across as almost fatherly.

The Pantheon is Italy's best - preserved ancient building, It started out as a pagan temple and then became a church.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

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Your church members still sing about David and Jerusalem and see their own indigenous traditions as pagan and savage.

This means, first, that the post-Christian age is to be clearly distinguished from the pre-Christian age (which Christians often referred to as pagan).

I'm not Doc, and «worship» is one of those tricky Christian words, but as a Pagan, I know many people who serve / believe in / work with any number of those gods.

Only the languages, dress, food, customs and religion of the foreigners who invaded and robbed the natives of the lands are considered true and legitimate while the ways of the natives continue to be despised as pagan, savage and inferior.

And this, it must be realized, was to come about not through some deep transformation in which they would «become the kingdoms of our God»; instead they would live on as pagan and alien kingdoms.

There the Church, while not as fully subservient to the State as its pagan predecessors had been, was often a tool of a nominally Christian but essentially non-Christian regime.

As a Pagan, all I can say is that I too look forward to the Rapture, so that all these frigging evangelicals will finally leave!

this is to joe r, atheism is not a belief system or religion.christians call non believers atheists, thats not what i call myself, i just think your all deluded, and by the way i also think that all monotheistic religions are just the same as any pagan religion practiced before monotheism.

«Part of what is scary for conservative religions is that as a pagan, I consider myself part of the divine,» says Holli S. Emore, executive director at South Carolina's Cherry Hill Seminary, which has one of the world's first graduate - level programs for pagan ministry.

Christianized Indians — and Mormonized Indians, of whom there are many — do not want returned to them items that they now regard as pagan.

As a Pagan, I don't believe in the «supernatural» either, because that implies that something exists outside of nature.

For the theologian will never be able to interpret the pagan myths in the same way as the pagan historian of religion does.

Most Christian holidays began as pagan holidays.

As a Pagan, I tend to direct my charitable efforts to individuals as well.

We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

fine if you all want prayers in school, its only fair that as a pagan the children sit through the reverence of our gods

Let us never forget that precisely out of reverence for the Deity he was ignorant, that, so far as a pagan could be, he kept watch as a judge on the border between God / and man, watching out to see that the deep gulf of qualitative distinction be firmly fixed between them, between God / and man, that God / and man may not in a way, philosophice, poetice, etc., coalesce into one.

i believe it is SELVES... I do believe yall can have «Santa Claus» thats about as PAGAN as it gets lol..

All jo.king aside (and even as a Pagan I have to ad.mit, the jokes are PLENTY here), there are a few things this sit.uat.ion brings to mind, and I'll ap.ologize now, these are random and what not as they come to me.

William Barclay, in his commentary on the Gospel of John, pointed out similarities between pagan rituals and the baptism of John, as well as pagan lore resembling the Virgin Birth.

Some have dismissed the display of Christmas trees as a pagan yuletide custom unfit for Christian usage.

Easter as a pagan festival coincides with the Jewish Passover.

Many anthropologists will label native religions as pagan, even if that religious tradition in Africa has nothing in common with one in the Philippines.

If I were harrassed by these hypocritical, war - promoting anti-abortionista's, I'd merely sue them on «relgious - hate - crimes» grounds, as my pagan belief leaves ALL failed culture war issues up to me!

An Orthodox Jew himself, he ridiculed the cult of the Wailing Wall as pagan stone - worship.

(Halloween is not as pagan as you think it is.)

From Karl: As a pagan, do you believe the God of the Christian Bible exists, and simply reject him in favor of paganism?

To be fair, as a Pagan, it is a part of what I believe, I concur with you there.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

There are many such examples including; adultery, incest, bestiality, rape, forced prostitution upon one's daughter, sex as pagan worship and pederasty.

The author sees Giles Deleuze as a pagan in his theory of evolution, metamorphosed into a Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

As a Pagan, I am offended from both sides.

As a pagan, I find the entire religion a source of endless amusement.

I wonder if, as pagan beliefs went into inevitable decline in the Roman Empire, there was the equivalent of a journalist who asked «Whatever happend to Zeus in the Empire?»

Easter may have its origins as a pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.

Looking ahead: Very few people probably know that Easter began as a pagan holiday.

So lets not seek for another as the pagans do, seek yee the One who save, Jesus, because there is no other name that can save.

Actually, you are completely wrong about who the Koran thinks of as pagans.

I no longer walk as the pagans do, and as I once did!