Sentences with phrase «many pagans»

The holiday has pagan roots and is most often celebrated with bright colors and dancing around a «maypole» or a colorful pole decorated with ribbons.

The base of the tree (which is, I would note from a theological perspective, an entirely pagan tradition) was made up of eight large books, representing the eight nights of Hannukah.

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.

Lighting candles on the Christmas tree, for example, recalled pagan desires for the «return of light» after the shortest day of the year.

The return to colorful and enjoyable pagan «Germanic» traditions promised to revitalize family celebration.

So because these ideas and traditions had a lengthy history, Nazi propagandists were able to easily cast Christmas as a celebration of pagan German nationalism.

Official celebrations might mention a supreme being, but they more prominently featured solstice and «light» rituals that supposedly captured the holiday's pagan origins.

The ritual of lighting candles on the Christmas tree was said to create an atmosphere of «pagan demon magic» that would subsume the Star of Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus in feelings of «Germanness.»

Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival, marked the beginning of winter and was believed to be a night on which spirits could roam among the living.

I am a Pagan so I obviously refused but being only 14, I was forced to go.

And yet in recent years, Burning Man, the weeklong party held in the Black Rock Desert — it's part electronic craft fair, part pagan cult, part rave — has attracted the world's premier tech leaders.

Looking ahead: Very few people probably know that Easter began as a pagan holiday.

Pagan A (2003), «Report on Modelling and Forecasting at the Bank of England», Report to the Court of Directors of the Bank of England.

We can't help it: the name excites visions of pagan stuff: witches, goblins, dark forests, and, well, wild - eyed eco hippies from British Columbia.

We canâ $ ™ t help it: the name excites visions of pagan stuff: witches, goblins, dark forests, and, well, wild - eyed eco hippies from British Columbia.

Or Romans, where it's a condemnation of Pagan idolatry which involved both straight and gay ritual prosti tution?

This year, I didn't have to do the Xmas bit even once, and most know, and accept the pagan rituals.

Early Christians wanted to convert pagans, Shaw said, but they were also fascinated by their traditions.

Imagine if a Pagan group wanted to use the football field to hold Samhain rituals?

Look on your dollar bill and count how many Christian symbols show up versus how many pagan.

btw muslims belive in jesus moses and muhammad as prophets and belive in their original teachings not the ones placed in the bible which have been altered by pagan romans.

«We» = Christians... «they» = pagans in that passage.

Several early Christian apologists claimed that the reason the gospel stories looked so much like * earlier * pagan stories was the Satan himself had set it all up in advance — a pre-emptive strike to confuse everyone.

As you say Christmas as we now celebrate it, on December 25th, is the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice, (as opposed to a celebration of Christ's birth).

The same could be said for your local Mosque, Buddhist temple, Synagogue, pagan spirit gathering, or witch's coven.

Perhaps that's why pagan traditions remained even as Christianity took hold.

«Easter» draws from Eoastre who is a pagan fertility goddess.

«Americans never thought twice (or even once) about the pagan names attached to their hardware,» McDougall writes.

4) Romans is a condemnation of Pagan idolatry, a sin so big it made it to the # 2 and # 3 spot of the Top Ten list.

Those are all pagan festivals crept inside christainity.

When Christians woke up to the fact people were celebrating the holiday with pagan symbols most of them got phased out.

So it's true the; besides being Fanatical, idolaters are very much alike their siblings atheists / evolutionists / cultists / pagans.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

Hey history student drop outs, the season is and always was a pagan holiday until your most holy and devout Constantine tried to unify his empire by fusing Christ to a pagan holiday.

An education is a useful thing... Christmas has nothing to do with your imaginary friends illegitimate child... read on and open your closed mind: (http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html)» Early Christians had a soft spot for pagans

When the apostle Paul wrote this, it was in a culture of pagan worship where the church at Ephesus was situated.

Some Christians would suggest that Islam had heavier pagan influences, but Islam's resounding affirmation of monotheism obviously derived from its Abrahamic roots.

Judaism is the only true faith and all these heretical versions of it like Christianity and Islam are false, pagan, blasphemous, and reject the Covenant Abraham made with the Eternal One, the Ten Commandments, the Tanakh, the one and only Book, and Talmud the codification of the Tanakh.

Easter may have its origins as a pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.

It's thought that it was merged with German pagan traditions in the 15th century when they became Roman Catholic therefore merging the bunny with Easter.

If you can claim that the church took the land off the pagans, they had taken it off Christians to start with.»

While most of the questions have a Christian element, even an old Pagan like me had no trouble answering all correctly.

Actually, «Inconvenient» Hitler was a christian, but probably ended as some kind of pagan.

Well, nobody except for heretics, apostates, pagans, idolaters, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, alchemists, tarot readers, gypsies, and other assorted heathens.

This is the fault of the Vatican, which practices Pagan Sun worship, not Christianity.

What do you think the response would be to an event aimed at converting people to Islam or pagan worship?

Moshiach, messiah is not some supernatural second god man thing, I don't quite understand how the whole Pagan Horus myth got mixed up into what became Christianity.

A future Billy Graham will take cues, then, from the Apostle Paul and his outreach to ancient pagan culture.