Sentences with phrase «like paganism»

I thought sounds like paganism.

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This is a distinction of inestimable importance, for the residual paganism of Christianized nations has invariably expressed itself in the idolatrous desire to be a chosen people» to be a nation like Israel.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

Yet, ever and always, they, like Christians before them, fall easily into idolatry» and thereby lapse into paganism.

One is that I was writing about the default neo-paganism of our culture, which, like ancient paganism, is not so much a creed as a stance.

Actually... most folks ancestorstral heritage was paganism... Until convert or die came along... which was such a very jesus like way of spreading his message.

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.»

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.

His reign passed away like the «baseless fabric of a vision, leaving no wreck behind save the important lesson that ancient paganism was hopelessly extinct, and that no human power can arrest the triumphant march of Christianity.

That said, traditional witchcraft rituals, like gathering in circles and uttering spells, have an important place in modern paganism, which further unsettles more traditional religious believers.

Jesus is a myth like Apollo and Hercules and Christianity is nothing but a syncretism of Mediterranean paganism, Egyptian mystery religion, Jewish Essenism, and Grrek and Roman elements.

They are almost entirely devoid of conceptual content, at least of the sort philosophers tend to like, and at times their language is perhaps overly saturated in a melancholy and somewhat ornamental paganism; but Heidegger had become convinced in his later years that the search for conceptual content is not really the search for truth.

The priests had begun to look and act rather like the very priests of the old Jewish Law or even of paganism which Jesus of Nazareth had, according to the story, come to displace for all time.

This animus is commonly identified with all those cultural «enemies» conquered in the past; it is called nature religion, goddess worship, paganism, witchcraft, demonism and the like, For a long time, Judaism also existed in Christian consciousness as a force in this suppressed animus.

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.

The first thing I found was that, like many of our modern religious traditions, Mardi Gras (which translates to mean «Fat Tuesday») has its origins in paganism, in this case it is linked to spring and fertility.