One not infrequently hears it said by men who for lack of losing themselves in studies are absorbed in phrases that a light shines upon the Christian world whereas a darkness broods
over paganism.
The victory of the church
over paganism was in part due «to the rule that the Christians assimilate pagan ideas while the pagans do not appropriate Christian ones» (Momigliano 1963 p. 87, quoted by Cobb 1982a p. 6).
Not exact matches
The Catholic hierarchy concludes that the godly righteous in the name of the Cross can triumph
over the new
paganism of godless sinners expressed in secularism in politics and avarice in business and the professions.
The different stories that linger around this creature, witness a specific kind of cultural transmission that,
over the centuries, through superstition and
paganism have linked Greek mythology and oral culture to Christianity.
«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.