heathen

How To Use heathen In A Sentence

• Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
• I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
• Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
• Tobacco's use in heathenish and healing rituals eventually would be replaced by its use in civilized medicine.
• She learned to pray at two or three, and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven.
• He was introduced by the captain himself, a notably pious man, who spoke of the labours of his brother in the dark places of heathendom. Prester John
• Israel literally went beyond the heathen in abominable idolatries. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Acts xv. 1, and Galatians, passim; these do not judaize, but heathenize, seeking to throw off every yoke, to rid themselves not of the ceremonial law only, but also of the moral; and to break down every distinction separating the Church from a world lying in the wicked one. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
• It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
• {1} But oh, my friends, think you our guides, our native attendants, deep-sunk in heathenism, were affected by such a scene? WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL