Sentences with phrase «from pagan rituals»

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

Not exact matches

Since the 1860s, German historians, theologians and popular writers had argued that German holiday observances were holdovers from pre-Christian pagan rituals and popular folk superstitions.

Easter co-ming from ancient pagan fertility rituals as stated, not sure how that's fit's into the ancient Passover Seder meal of the Jews...?

(He also moved Christmas — Jesus» birthday — from the late spring to December, to usurp the pagan rituals of Saturnalia and the Winter Solstice.)

I suspect your church, like all of them, are offshoots of the pagan rituals you all stole from the ancients.

Just because someone who prays to pagan gods in certain way, then decides to pray to the true God through Christ in the same ritual that they were so ingrained from childhood, doesn't mean the person moved back to pagan gods.

From what little I have seen of Pagan art, imagery, ritual, ect, it appears there is a sincere honoring of both the male and the female energies.

On the other hand, Paul prohibited Christians from actually participating in the sacrificial rituals of pagan worship.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

However, many of the party leaders, like Hans Schemm, and Otto Wagner, were far from happy about the use of Hitler Youth events to stage Pagan rituals so they complained to Hitler who ridiculed the youthful paganism by saying: «All that rubbish about the Thing places, the solstice festivals, the Midgard snake.»

Willing to celebrate and embrace a holiday that was stolen by the Catholics, from the Pagans, a ritual that has trickled on down to the Protestants over the last 300 years, which has more to do with ancient s - ex worship than with anything else!

And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual — the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of «God - eating» — were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.

At the basement bar, I overheard one woman ecstatically describing works that «looked like the back of Artforum» (referring to Galerie Bischofberger's signature ads featuring Alpine folk scenes)-- perhaps thinking of Hanna Liden's ambiguous staged photographs on themes culled from the Nordic folklore and pagan ritual.