Sentences with phrase «before christianity»

Both are located along Via Appia Antica and are reminders of religious persecution before Christianity was legalized.

Spaniel - type dogs were hunting in Great Britain before Christianity came to the land.

Sure: the ancient Persians, Greeks and Romans (before Christianity and Islam) seem to have regarded bisexuality as the norm for men — although their attitudes do not map straightforwardly onto modern ones (the main distinction was between «active» and «passive» or to be less euphemistic, penetrator and penetrated, with the former regarded as superior).

Thus, even before Christianity had a chance to define itself in terms of its own Hebrew origins, it was already being called upon to deal with an alien culture which had a level of philosophical sophistication higher than its own.

You realize there were thousands of religions before Christianity, right?

«Passionate, toe - curling sex» has been associated with religion and spirituality since long before Christianity existed!

In calling for a new evangelization, the Pope precisely chose as a model what happened before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, in other words, before it could even be tempted to impose its creed by means of political coercion.

Our postwar paganism is, in fact, in one form or another, simply the idolatry which used to hold the field in the ages before Christianity appeared in the world, and which Christianity has always been struggling to weed out of people's hearts.

Most of the larger moral concepts were around before Christianity but they claim it their own.

The great prophetic tradition had gone so far in the apprehension of God before Christianity began that the first prerequisite for a true estimate of the New Testament is grateful appreciation of the Old.

I believe in a monotheistic deity, but that belief expands beyond, after, and before Christianity from Sikhism, Bahá «í, Zoroastrianism, Islam, etc..

There was music before Christianity.

The «themes» in the Bible are those that were common to mankind even before Christianity, so it's no surprise if authors continue to use them.

Actually, there was a whole lot of living and a whole lot of civilizations with moral codes well before Christianity ever formed.

What had these women been taught before Christianity?

The world bowed low before Christianity, submitting every aspect of its life to Christian domination.

The union of two people was around long before Christianity and long before Judaism.

There is no mention of the word marriage in that scripture and in fact marriage was around long before christianity was, so christianity does not get to take ownership of this.

Do you think those didn't exist before christianity came into vogue?

those rules were in place LONG before christianity reared its ugly head.

You're telling me that for literally thousands and thousands and thousands of years before Christianity was invented (and yes, it was invented, just like every other religion) no one was saved?

When Christianity came into force as the official religion of Rome, the local population transferred their hate of Jews previously established before Christianity into this new religion.

Atheism existed long before Christianity and Jesus and will continue to exist long after Christianity fades away like so many other religions and their gods have.

Before Christianity charity did not exist, nor was there tolerance or humility.

If we start outlawing certain religions, it won't be too long before Christianity is outlawed.

Mankind was driven to learn to read long before christianity and it's fellow belief systems.

You are ware that your Christian bible borrowed the virgin birth, the resurrection, the story of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, Adam & Eve, and the creation story from other cultures that came long before Christianity, right?

I doubt it, and all these values that he doesn't name, be says that Christianity created were created long before Christianity!

Does that mean before Christianity, Judism, and Islam all other beliefs in a power greater than man are wrong or maybe mislead... I think not.

You'll be gone before Christianity is.

In the very early Church, before Christianity was called Christianity it was called, quite simply, the Way.

People have been saying they are in the end - times since even before Christianity.

Such Jewish sectarian groups seemed to have influenced Jewish Christian communities all over the East, not least in Adiabene where sectarian Judaism might well have taken root even before Christianity arose.

Mr Irrational, that «new age philosophy» was around thousands of years before christianity, and christianity borrowed heavily from it.

We have a long way to go, over a rough and still uncharted terrain, before we reach the Point of a universal Christian church and even farther before Christianity and other religions find that Point.

there were good people long before christianity reared its ugly head.

Before Christianity there were plenty of other religions, and with so many religions why does one religion get to claim itself as being better than the other?

Sorta kinda Beliefs in astrology and magic have been around since way before Christianity and even Judaism, and they're still going strong.

People before christianity came along were using evergreens to celebrate Ra, winter solstice, etc..

Atheism was around long before Christianity and will still be around long after it has become extinct, like so many other religions.

You really need to look up the definition of statistics because you have no idea what that even means, 2nd it's not a statistic it's a fact, in 2600 BCE The book of the dead was written and on chapter 125 7 of the commandments were written before Christianity was every thought up.

Marriage existed LONG before Christianity did.

The tribes and peoples of Europe were raping, pillaging, murdering, and raiding each other long before Christianity arrived; the new religion simply gave them a new banner under which they could legitimize the behavior.

The «Golden Rule», for instance, existed long before Christianity.

Here are at least three religions before Christianity where there was a Messiah that spoke to god under a burning bush who was persecuted, killed and then resurrected.

The Fact of the matter is that under Roman Rule before Christianity took over, you could worship as you wished as long as you paid Temple Tax to sustain the Roman Gods.

Christians were scapegoats in the Roman empire before christianity was legalized.

I mean way back before Christianity, when polytheism was the normal approach to religion.

The fact that these «myths» appeared in other cultures, centuries before Christianity tell me that there is a basic need in humans to be comforted in this way.

You also disregard previous ancient religions that existed before christianity, & had done so for longer that christianity has been in existence presently.