Quotes About Paganism

We all admire geniuses. Before the talents. This is totemism. This is paganism where every genius, as a god, is responsible for his ability. We have become pagans of media mythology.

But every step away from the Jewish narrative, in this case the Jewish narrative as reaching its focal point in Israel's Messiah, is a step toward paganism.

What has been lost is the paganized vision of an angry God looming over the world and bent upon blood.

Paul, like most Jews of his day and many subsequently, believed that in God's good purposes world history was divided into the "present age" (the time when the powers were still ruling) and the "age to come," when God would assume his rightful power at last. The dark powers invoked in paganism had held the world captive in the "present evil age," but now something new had happened:

In Britain, some public schools now teach paganism in their religious education courses, including "witchcraft, druidism and the worship of ancient gods such as Thor.

Western culture is regressively falling back into a dualism that denigrates the material realm, just as paganism did.

early Christians viewed children as complete and valuable human beings. One result, says Bakke, was that Christian parents practiced a much "greater involvement in upbringing than was generally the case in pagan families.

Ni cristianismo ni paganismo, enseñan éticas altruistas. Tanto la moral cristiana, como la moral pagana, son individualismos éticos, que imponen deberes sociales, tan solo como medios de nuestra perfección terrestre o de nuestra salvación enigmática.

Die Versuchung des Paganismus ist nicht die Immortalität, sondern der Moral. Ein ungläubiger Heide hat die Ethik erfunden.

Weder Christentum noch Heidentum lehren eine altruistische Ethik. Die christliche wie die heidnische Moral sind ethische Individualismen, die soziale Pflichten einzig als Mittel zu unserer irdischen Vervollkommnung oder zu unserer geheimnisvollen Rettung auferlegen.

and by their frequent sacrifices to Bacchus they showed that even yet there remains in the Slavonic nature a certain element of paganism.

We act like pagans in a crisis—only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

Some say Irish Catholicism is only one step away from paganism, that the faerie folk were never destroyed, only assimilated into the new faith and given the names of saints so the people could still worship without heresy.

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëYour wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”

“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.