Sentences with phrase «attempt by pagan»

At first I thought this was just an attempt by pagan scientists to prove evolution.

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If this is true, it wasn't Christianity that Christianised a pagan festival but a pagan emperor attempting to paganise a Christian festival that predated it by 30 years.

Mark: Christmas and Easter are holidays taken over by christians as they moved in and attempted to control / convert pagans.

In Ramadan of the second year after the Hijrah the pagans reacted to these fruitless attempts to intercept the caravans by declaring an offensive against Medina.

The prohibition against art was an attempt by ancient Israel to undercut pagan idolatry, but it was never totally successful.

Also as among some other peoples, the death of the masterful king was followed by a pagan reaction which was an attempt both to return to ancestral ways and to revive local autonomy.

In the fourth century A.D., church leaders in Rome attempted to eliminate the pagan festivities by adopting December 25th as Christ's birthday.

You see one of the criticisms often levelled against Far Cry 4 was that Pagan Min was absent for most of the game, a mere voice on a radio, which I actually believe to be a deliberate attempt to create that sensation of a guiding, fatherly voice, albeit warped by the weirdness of Pagan.