Sentences with phrase «paganism insist»

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.

The existing paganism insisted on a hierarchy of aristocracy being served by slaves.

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Barfield identifies original participation as paganism, and insists that the Old Testament's condemnation of idolatry was a negation of original participation.

While frequently claiming that the soul is naturally Christian, or dogmatically if uncritically insisting that Christianity is the fulfillment of the world's religions, Christian theology has nevertheless condemned «idolatry» and opposed all paganism (i.e., non-Biblical religion).

Christianity, in contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, has not only established a dualism of man and nature, but has also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends... Hence we shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.