Sentences with phrase «of ancestor worship»

Neither does the Bible, all the more so when it is trying to metaphorically convince me not only of a fairy, but a cobalt blue fairy with peculiarly tinted wings, forcing me to also consider the sky blue fairy of Judaism, the navy blue fairy of Islam, the red fairies of Hinduism, the purple fairies of the Norse religion, the green fairies of paganism, the rainbow - colored fairies of ancestor worship, all of which are equally implausible and mutually exclusive alternative kinds of fairies where we don't even have a single fairy of any color trapped in a cage.

There was a lot of ancestor worship at Gallery Weekend Berlin this year.

It is sons who stay home, inherit assets and keep the rituals of ancestor worship.»

Yoshi told me that there was no reason to draw hard and fast lines between Buddhism and Shintoism, because most Japanese people practice some mix of the two, with a dose of ancestor worship mixed in.

In the Old Testament, however, the actual practice of worshiping ancestors had been so far overpassed that while one first rate scholar says, «There is a growing consensus of opinion that the Hebrews, like all other peoples at a certain stage of thought, worshipped these spirits,» (Henry Preserved Smith: The Religion of Israel, p. 25) another first - rate scholar says, «The alleged indications of Ancestor Worship are all exposed to more or less serious objections.»

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Take a moment to listen and begin to hear about ancestor worship, the growth of the church on the mainland compared to the slower growth in Taiwan, and a bluegrass concert.

More on this over the next couple of days... but please weigh in below, specifically on Robert's comments and missions in this culture — where not worshiping one's ancestors to be both dishonoring and spiritually dangerous.

Ancestor worship is one of the major barriers to faith in Christ.

They were more concerned about the ancestors within the reach of memory and, as time went on, new spirits were incorporated in the circle of worship.

Ancestor «worship» and its principles kept up the social relations of the living world.

The Christian god also says to kill evangelicals too If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and worship other gods» (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them.

Historical criticism tells us that Cain was considered the embodiment or ancestor of the Kenites who, though they worshiped Yahweh, were never included in the covenant community nor were they heirs of the promised land.

There the life of the nation has been molded by ancestor - worship to a cohesion which has outlived the changes of 5,000 years; and Christianity, when it demands that a man surrender that, demands that he become an outlaw from his own nation.

From Cassie: Growing up Chinese, my parents found any visual depiction of Christianity to be idolatrous, which I believe is due to the fact that much of the trappings of high church tradition were too similar to the ancestor worship with which they grew up.

Since the Sadducees were largely identified with the Temple, they disappeared with its destruction; the Pharisees — being associated with the local centers of instruction and worship, the synagogues — survived to become the ancestors of Judaism as we know it today.

It says in the Old Testament Deuteronomy 13.6 - 8: 13:6 If anyone secretly entices you — even if it is your brother, your father's son or your mother's son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend — saying, «Let us go worship other gods,» whom neither you nor your ancestors have known, 13:7 any of the gods of the peoples that are around you, whether near you or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other, 13:8 you must not yield to or heed any such person.

'' 6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and worship other gods» (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them.

My ancestors worshipped the phallic part of the human anatomy.

Sometimes the nationals, especially the first generation Christians, want to separate themselves from the style of songs and worship that they have associated with ancestor worship, sorcery, witchcraft, etc..

The use of ancient prayers in public worship unites us with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern prayers bring us into contact with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as with our brethren across the world in our own day.

By homologizing these deities (i.e., the lineage ideology of ancient Japan) with the ancestor worship of the common people, the government thought to create a feeling of national unity and dedication.

The Horror... it's almost as bad as when people would accuse their peers of WITCHCRAFT and then be given a mock trial where they where Drown or burned at the stake to «prove» if they where pure... It's ALMOST as bad as the systematic slaughter of people of other faiths because you felt their homeland was OWED to you... because your ancestors once worshiped there.

The ancestor worship of Japanese Shintoism and the spiritism of South American Indians are very closely related to animism since they entail the same idea; that is, of a natural world overrun by invisible spirits.

Many of the miners in his town worshipped statues of Satan, and most of the people left food out for the dead on All Saints» Day, sprinkling flour on the floor and later looking to see if their ancestors had visited and left footprints.

... it is more than welcome, full of generous quotations and ancestor worship - a memory book, a bildungsroman, and practically a palimpsest, with the past written over but not at all erased, still signifying.

Her shelf had to do with a religion she'd made up for herself, a mixture of nature and ancestor worships.

This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insider's view into traditional Andean life — a timeless world where farmers plant their crops on the lands their ancestors tended and watch over herds of llama and alpaca beneath the sacred snow - covered peaks they worshipped as gods.

Ancestor worship and animism — belief in the spiritual worth of living things — feature in the proceedings and there are plenty of games, including spinning tops, as well as feasting, singing and dancing.

The ancestor - worshipping lineage associations that proliferated beginning in the 1890s worked to preserve the status of old Yankee families during a period of high immigration.

A lonely Hindu enclave in the predominantly Muslim Indonesian archipelago of 17,500 islands, its unique variant of faith is a composite of Indian cosmology, Tantric Buddhism, local animist traditions and ancestor worship.

In Balinese culture, a man and a woman is considered to be complete when they are unite to form a family that worship common ancestors in the family shrine of each Balinese household.

Each Hindu family has family temple to worship Hyang Widhi and their ancestors, so that there are thousands of temples in the island of Bali.

Apart from being the only Hindu - majority region in a predominantly Muslim country, the island of Bali has an enchanting mixture of local animist traditions and practices, Tantric Buddhism, ancestor worship and more.

Ancestor worship was very important to the ancient Maya, and when they buried a king beneath a pyramid or a commoner beneath the floor or courtyard of a na (thatched Maya hut), the sacredness of the location was increased.

A world in dissolution deserved better of the artist than an uneasy aesthetic isolationism which identified virtue in art with the rural western idyl of Thomas Benton, the backwoods folklore of John Steuart Curry, and the somewhat satirical ancestor worship of Grant Wood.