Sentences with phrase «give paganism»

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Just as most of the citizens of the Western world reject paganism, when they give the matter any attention, so likewise do they recognize the untenability of power culture.

dose of paganism is a betrayal to all the believers who gave their lives for the purity of the faith they delivered to us as recorded in the new testament.

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

I'm sorry, but «Jesus» doesn't give somebody like her, who is steeped in paganism, «divine revelations» outside the Bible, nor would He promise to bless a book she is going to write — which, with its «new» revelations, render moot God's Word which tells us everything we need to know.

The postwar paganism also gives its converts directions for their conduct in practical life; and these directions are of the kind which human nature craves for: they are simple, clear, concrete and confident.

This post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.

Post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.The idolatrous worship of organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.

And if Christianity rises to the present challenge from the postwar paganism, the appearance on earth of another batch of saints will no doubt be one of the practical concrete ways in which the church will be given the strength to deal with its present adversary.

The spiritual driving - force drawn from Christianity has given the new paganism a daemonic power which the old paganism never wielded, and this power is — let us frankly admit it — tremendously formidable.

Bottom line is the Christmas tree has its origins in paganism, has currently become a symbol of capitalism (with all those presents under the tree, none of which are being given to Christ), and is also embraced by secularism.

For Jews on the left who like to give a Jewish cast to their politics, the tradition's tiqqun «olam, «setting the world right,» means whatever is on the left's agenda, and the problem of paganism never is.

«Give us your property and your virgin daughters to save us all from the wrath of the gods» is not «post normal paganism» or any such crap, it is just plain old opportunistic scare politics, and it quite often was perpetrated over climate change phenomena.

But just as there are tropical fossils under the ice, calling all bad weather our fault, gives the social psychotics of witch burning, omen worship, paganism, superstition and sacrificing virgins, a new meaner brother by the name of climate change.