Sentences with phrase «pagan religions around»

Me: Well, you know there are lots of pagan religions around the world and throughout time that look remarkably similar to a house church.

Not exact matches

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..

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

I was raised CAtholic, and by choice became pagan (actually, not Pagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous tpagan (actually, not Pagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous tPagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous to me.

Islam was a great religion for helping pagans out of idolatry but not when it foments trouble around the world in its zeal to convert non-believers.

There were pagan priestesses of old — every religion in the area around the Middle East had priestesses, God's own chosen people, the Jews, were unique in not having them.

That said, I don't consider an observation of Yule (fact: this was a Germanic pagan tradition LONG before the birth of Christ) or Eostre / Ishtar / Easter (all sorts of convoluted Roman and pagan traditions regarding celebration of spring and death / resurrection were happening around this time of year prior to Christ's existence) to be favoring one religion over another, since so many different religions are involved in those mixes.

Yes Chrisitianity (in its many fractured branches that may or may not seem anything liek one another), has been around for 1400 years, but Judaism has been around for more than twice that, and there are other pagan religions (that while less common are still in practice in some places) that have been around since LONG before Jesus was even a gleam in his Father's eye.