Sentences with phrase «pagan religion of»

What should we make of the pagan religion of Climatism, whose symbol is the bent stick?

Along the way, Erickson encounters spiritual leaders who include the chief priest of the Icelandic pagan religion of Asatru, a Trappist monk at Thomas Merton's Gethsemani Abbey, and a Lakota retreat director at South Dakota's Bear Butte.

The Irish were geographically close to the pagan religion of the region so body parts and religion may have been a bit of a mix of the two.

For extra lulz try telling them something like you're a member of ancient Pagan religion of Slovakia or something.

These people associate Modern Paganism with the pagan religions of antiquity, which were in direct competition with early Christianity.

Plus when you factor in all the similarities to other pagan religions of that time period your case goes up in smoke.

That's why Christianity was a copy of other pagan religions of that time including the story of Jesus.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

Not exact matches

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.

My mother told me that placing my faith in God was the answer / But then I hated God cause he gave my mother cancer / Killing her slow like the Feds did to the Blank Panthers / The genesis of genocide is like a Pagan religion / Carefully hidden, woven into the holidays of a Christian /

The modern religion being pushed on us is a sick ancient Pagan Sun worship religion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Christ.

As a pagan, I find the entire religion a source of endless amusement.

No, Easter is the celebration of a pagan goddess that the christians stole in order to convert more people to their religion.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

This date was chosen, and remains, the traditional date for followers of many different Pagan religions to celebrate the rebirth of the sun.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynaspagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan DynasPagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan DynasPagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus, hinduism, fabrication of hindu Magi's, criminal tricksters of Rom to promote hindu Mithra ism, pagan savoir ism, religion of hindu, pagan Romans to make humanity their gentile, slaves.

3.28 — with rather less endearing texts culled from a narrow range of pagan and Jewish sources, and maintain that one has uncovered the causal factor: the essential character of the new religion.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

That opposition was ratcheted up in Israel, where any toleration of transgenderism was viewed as a mark of infidelity to Yahweh and an idolatrous concession to pagan religion.

Jesus is the «true myth» (with the emphasis on true) which proves the validity of many of the themes and longings of men's hearts which are found in the pagan myths of other religions.

Father Tom Brodie, a Dominican priest, in his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religions.

Expect nothing better but mayhem among humanity by following of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, Allah, and following of hindu pagan Mithra ism, savior ism, neither commanded, nor allowed in Islam as a religion, but Theen Allah, consti tution of truth absolute.

The New Agers are an amalgamation of multiple and varying ancient pagan religions dating back to Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, and so on...

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

This same criticism of religion is found in his poem «Christians and Pagans»: «Men go to God when they are sore bestead.

Nor were animals and the forces of nature to be bowed down to by man as in pagan religion; rather man, as a rational being made in the image of God, was to exercise dominion over them.

Benedict notes that, when Julian the Apostate (d. 363) tried to abolish the Church and reestablish the pagan cults, the one thing he wanted his old - new religion to emulate was the Church's ministry of charity.

While pagan peoples were pressing in from the North and the Northeast, the bearers of a new religion were conquering the South and the Southeast.

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

In addition, the remarkable similarities between Christianity and other Mystery Religions of the time suggest that Christanity was an evolutionary hybrid of Jewish Messianism with pagan Savior God mythology.

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

Furthermore, ideas such as death and resurrection in pagan religions usually related to the crop cycle rather than the idea of a god dying to pay for someone's sins.

majority of the motheistic religions preach tolerance as does the pagan practice.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

Many of the early Christians came out of Judaism and pagan religions where a class of clerics and priests ruled and dominated other people in all things spiritual.

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..

Perhaps they love it as a person, not different from people of pagan religions.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

@Eric, when Christianity became the official religion of Rome, thousands of Pagans were slaughtered and their holy places destroyed.

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

Christianity alone destroyed all of the Pagan religions - Greek and Roman - with the most horrible cruelty and destruction imaginable, which was a far cry from alleged persecutions the early Christians had received.

Shameful should religions be and all their emotional transparencies that disenfranchise the establishments of secularism and cultured barbarism around «pagan» peasantries.

That is the religion of the pagan.