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.

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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
Suggestions from what we call the heathen world seemed to accord with his Gospel of the Wild. The Last Harvest
They first set out to convert the heathen.
We do not know how much he made lecturing the rest of us heathens on morality.
A professional actor who is appalled by the slack behaviour of an indisciplined group of amateurs seemed a good counterpoint for an uptight Christian coming amongst heathens. Playing with fire: The Wicker Man musical
There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
Still his doctrine seems to have been a heathen Gnosticism, in which he proclaimed himself as the Standing One, the principal emanation of the Deity and the Redeemer.
Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being. Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
(The opposite formula to "Tell it not in Gath," namely, lest the heathen should glory over Israel). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The medieval Europeans divided the world between Christian and heathen, but heathens could convert to Christianity.
After this St. Germanus proceeded to Britain, and there encouraged his converts to meet the heathen Picts at Maes Garmon, in Flintshire, where the exulting shout of the white-robed catechumens turned to flight the wild superstitious savages of the north – and the Hallelujah victory was gained without a drop of bloodshed. A Book of Golden Deeds
Fornication of such a gross kind as (exists) not even among the heathen, so that one (of you) hath (in concubinage) his father's wife," that is, his stepmother, while his father is still alive (2Co 7: 12; compare Le 18: 8). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
My object, indeed, in the introduction of the Danish Vala especially, has been perhaps as much addressed to the reason as to the fancy, in showing what large, if dim, remains of the ancient "heathenesse" still kept their ground on the Saxon soil, contending with and contrasting the monkish superstitions, by which they were ultimately replaced. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
I am a heathen but will help make up a minyan if required, and said kaddish for my mother when she died.
Japanese chess, story-telling, and the samisen fill up the early part of the evening, but later, an agonising performance, which they call singing, begins, which sounds like the very essence of heathenishness, and consists mainly in a prolonged vibrating Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
They have abandoned their cannibalism and heathen ways.
The movie reinforces the stereotype of Indians as heathens and savages.
His piety and wisdom were proverbial among his countrymen at an early period; probably owing to that noble proof he gave of faithfulness, combined with wisdom, in abstaining from the food sent to him from the king's table, as being polluted by the idolatries usual at heathen banquets (Da 1: 8-16). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Why are all these immoral, indecent, godless heathens apparently committing no crimes when decent, god-fearing folk are being arrested and institutionalized in droves?
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Tappan, a heathenish idea persists that what they need more than hygienics and scientific discipline is some of that old-fashioned love -- love which rocks them when it is not good for them -- love which overfeeds them sometimes so that they yell with old-fashioned colic -- love which ventures a bacilli-laden kiss. The Danger Mark
The heathen will not be judged because they did not hear of Christ, but because they have refused the knowledge that was given to them about God and did not pursue it.
He may turn his attention to the healing art; and allopathically, homoeopathically, hydropathically, electropathically, or by any other path, run a muck through many heathen hospitals. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
And, in fact, the few who since the revival of letters have deserted Christianity for what they called philosophic heathenism, have in almost every case sympathised, not with the excellences, but with the worst vices of the Greek and Literary and General Lectures and Essays
‘Don't be ridiculous, you little heathen,’ Bridgett yelled.
If, on the other hand, a band of Christians should attempt to enslave a race of heathen men and to entail slavery upon them, and to keep them in heathenism in the midst of Christianity, the God of heaven would smile upon every effort which the injured might make to disenthral themselves. Walker's Appeal with a Brief Sketch of His Life
No family as a family is either a church or any part of a church, (in the notion that church is here spoken of;) and though masters of families be governors in their own houses, yet their power is not ecclesiastical but economical or domestical, common to heathens as well as Christians. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Also, at the moment of delivering each kick, he called the Kanaka a black heathen. The Heathen
Joe, I never knew I _knew_ all the words for the cussings I gave those heathen before our fellas found me! Space Tug
So we see the heathen poets, when they fall upon a libertine passion, do still expostulate with laws and moralities, as if they were opposite and malignant to nature: Et quod natura remittit, invida jura negant. The Advancement of Learning
Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
It is interesting to find that the root of smoking tobacco came from heathen religions.
To indulge the lust of concupiscence is to live and act like heathens? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.
Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose. In the Footprints of the Padres
Moreover, the Northumbrian monarchy already had produced one saint and martyr, Oswald, whose death was at the hands of the heathen Mercian king Penda, of whom Wulfhere certainly, and Aethelbert probably, was a son. The Staffordshire Hoard Appeal
As human slavery is a practice entirely of heathen origin, it was to be expected that when it was adopted among Christians from the heathen, it would in a material respect be supported by the same means, appear the same thing both in practice and name, and so far as its influence extended heathenize those Christians that adopted it. A condensed anti-slavery Bible argument, by
Bishops of Rome sent out missionaries to convert " heathen " tribes and win over their rulers.
Shall any of these heathen among whom I dwell, rise up at that awful season -- stretch out their hands towards you, and say, There stand the children who might have sent us the Bible, but they did not send it; and now we must be lost -- _lost for ever! Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? Berlinski's Wisdom
Fortunately, Townshend's guitar noodling never steps into the realm of being entirely gratuitous, and as with all the best songs on Heathen, Bowie's vocals are wisely left to dominate.
he went to carry the Word to the heathen
Karen is now an atheist, formerly a Catholic, who posts her internal dialogues with her ‘altar ego’ Sister Mary Karen, who is appalled by Karen's newfound heathenism and her sinful ways.
She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law. William Lloyd Garrison
Using the term 'gnostic' for what you believe in all its depth and its totality was intended to reach a similar level of simple courtesy to that I get when unbelieving friends call me a 'pagan' - a good general term for roughly what floats my spiritual boat - rather than 'heathen' - the specific term for what sets that boat alight. [christianity] is fair discussion possible [1]
Usually excellent articles on relgious issues of Heathenry, scholarly stuff, reviews, and opinion. The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Ordo Templi Orientis
However, the same thing is observable amongst us Christian English: we say the Duse take you! even as our heathen Saxon forefathers did, who worshipped a kind of Devil so called, and named a day of the week after him, which name we still retain in our hebdomadal calendar like those of several other Anglo – Saxon devils. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
He was the representative of the Christian Roman defying the Teuton, on the ground of rights which he believed to have existed while the Teuton was a heathen in the German forests. Roman and the Teuton
Were women to ‘unsex’ themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
If we'd all staid in de heathen land, where all de black folks come from, we'd neber known noting 'bout heben, noting 'bouts de hebenly' deemer or de golden streets of de new Jerusalem. The Planter's Northern Bride
Well that is understandable, they could all be Godless Heathen or veign spoiled brats with no tallent. Regretsy – Heidi = Ho
The person who barges in most often these days is my highly conservative, self-proclaimed fundamentalist Christian roommate, who tries his damnedest to stop my heathen ways.
Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
It is ordinary heathen libertinism which is disseminated by these The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
On air, Colbert has chided the pope as an "ecu-menace" for his outreach to other faiths, referred to non-Catholics as "heathens and the excommunicated" and calls those who believe in evolution "monkey men. The Quiet Faith Behind Colbert's Right-Wing Funnyman
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Archive 2007-12-01
There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
My one sufficient object was to greet that pious friend of mine, the Apostle Eliot, and rejoice with him over the many precious souls he hath won from heathendom!
He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way.
I think that he had never been entirely reconciled to the heathenish invention which I called a sail, and that down in the bottom of his heart he believed that the paddlers would eventually overhaul us; but now he couldn't praise it enough. Pellucidar
That, too, is typical of heathenism, which is sad with unavailing cries and ignorant of answers to any. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
But Polly's was like the mad and lawless ceremonial of some heathen temple where incense arose and nautch girls writhed. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
The result is a blurring of the boundary between the sanctioned Christian creed and the heathen practices associated with magic and the devil.
Paul, setting out on his journeys with the great idea of converting heathens, was obliged to paganize the Gospel. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
He had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion.
The name Yule carries us back to the far-off ages when the heathen nations of the North held their annual winter festival in honour of the sun. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it. The Customs of Old England
Christian family of its mission as a nursery for the soul; wrest from the parents their high prerogative as stewards of God; and you heathenize home, yea, you brutalize it! The Christian Home
They were exposed to persecutions, though apparently not systematic, but rather annoyances and reproach arising from their not joining their heathen neighbors in riotous living, into which, however, some of them were in danger of falling. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The word devil in the Old Testament is always mentioned in the plural, suggesting not a devil as a personal entity, but a concept of demons of idolatry, the worship of idols—the false gods or deities of the heathen or pagan peoples that surrounded the Israelites geographically. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
Got to say that’s one thing I love about Heathenry: wealth is considered a good thing as long as you are generous. Does a recession cancel out prosperity gospel? « Dating Jesus
Can you tell them farewell, farewell no more to meet them on earth, can you Oh! can you leave them and native land far, far in heathen lands to dwell, can, you say, Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonMay 1857
In later times the most enlightened heathen nations indulged in the sin of Sodom without compunction or shame. are set forth -- before our eyes. suffering -- undergoing to this present time; alluding to the marks of volcanic fire about the Dead Sea. the vengeance -- Greek, "righteous retribution." eternal fire -- The lasting marks of the fire that consumed the cities irreparably, is a type of the eternal fire to which the inhabitants have been consigned. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Christianity; and at Polycarp's martyrdom they joined the heathens in clamoring for his being cast to the lions; and when there was an obstacle to this, for his being burnt alive; and with their own hands they carried logs for the pile. synagogue of Satan -- Only once is the term "synagogue" in the New Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This air of religious superiority informed their efforts to Christianize the ‘heathen’ Indians.
According to Irenaeus he claimed to have appeared in Samaria as the Father, in Judea as the Son, and among the heathen as the Holy Ghost, a manifestation of the Eternal.
The angelica is like the green birk of that superb fragment, the ballad of the Wife of Usher's Well -- a little more frankly heathen, of course -- The Danish History, Books I-IX
Saxons were heathens at that time, or at least heretics, and made a positive point with her husband that the bondswoman and girl who were to attend on her person and that of her daughter, should be qualified for the office by being anew admitted into the Christian Church by baptism. Count Robert of Paris
She is an absolute heathen who refuses to not put teabags in the sink.
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
At first glance one would say that these apostles were to go to all the heathen world and proclaim a message of salvation as we think of it.
If I get any of the various jobs which are not at places of worship, then I'll remain a heathen.
Without doubt the term deity was deliberately chosen, for it does not exclude a heathen interpretation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The supposed connection of the fourth Eclogue with the _Sibylline Books_, and through them, with the sacred wisdom of the Hebrews, of course placed Virgil on a different level from other heathens. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
A Knapper may have lived on a "knap," or may have been one of the Suffolk flint-knappers, who still prepare gun-flints for weapons to be retailed to the heathen. The Romance of Names
Emanuel shook his head, muttering about the misguidedness of heathens.
He desired that he might go along with Christ (v. 18), perhaps for fear lest the evil spirit should again seize him; or, rather, that he might receive instruction from him, being unwilling to stay among those heathenish people that desired him to depart. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Church of Smyrna endured at the hands of its Jewish and heathen persecutors and oppressors, thlibein and thlipsis being constant words to express this (1 Thess. iii. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
Tobias symbolized the powers of darkness, heathendom, and sin striving against the coming of salvation, and also Anna's long barrenness. The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
But a proper assessment of such an undertaking reveals just the opposite: it is the mark of heathenism.
“But, my father,” said Catharine, “even for these opinions men term you a Lollard and a Wickliffite, and say it is your desire to destroy churches and cloisters, and restore the religion of heathenesse.” The Fair Maid of Perth
To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
'_Mea culpa, mea culpa_,' he murmured wearily, then as he rose up with pale cheek a gleam of fire lit in his eye, for he would die rather than permit Saint Oswyn's shrine to be pillaged by the heathen. Border Ghost Stories
If heathen philosophers grasped something of the three transcendentals and of the law of human nature, they grasped nothing of these three virtues.
At first once performed to the heathenism temple or the spacious building to rebuild, simultaneously the mold in the style of antiquity Rome rectangle meeting hall form constructed the Christ church.
Ultra-Chartists, 'Danes' as they were then called, coming into his territory with their 'five points,' or rather with their five-and-twenty thousand _points_ and edges too, of pikes namely and battle-axes; and proposing mere Heathenism, confiscation, spoliation, and fire and sword, -- Edmund answered that he would oppose to the utmost such savagery. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
The same arts and allegories, the same phraseologies and philosophies, which appear first as proofs of heathen health turn up later as proofs of Christian corruption. The New Jerusalem
I wanted to become a Missionary in order to spread the Word to the heathens of the world.
It was a common practice in Greek and Latin lands to make use of slabs already inscribed, i.e. to take the reverse of a slab containing a heathen inscription for the inscribing of a Christian one; such a slab is called an opisthograph. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The ancientest Fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the Gospel. Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19
If they still don't understand, then they're heathens unversed in the ways of the West and not worthy of your fine patronage.
I thought that rending the bloody veil from my horrible fate could make thy proud heart stoop to the discipline of the church, I could find in my heart to tell thee a tale, which I have hitherto kept gnawing at my vitals in concealment, like the self-devoted youth of heathenesse. The Talisman
With which quip against the Anabaptists of his day, Fuller ends his story; and I leave him to set forth how Amyas, in fear of these same Scythians and heathens, rode out of Plymouth on a right good horse, in his full suit of armor, carrying lance and sword, and over and above two great dags, or horse-pistols; and behind him Westward Ho!
It belongs to the old days of heathenesse; before the Welsh were conquered by the Romans, perhaps before our Blessed Lord came into the world, these stones were placed as you now see them," replied Father Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.
Cheap tickets las vegas is a accommodatingly equably peeper as it can bromoform one to commercially genuinely see heathen arctiidae and canonic suppression of gossamer selenology. Rational Review
Her target was solely the marranos, "converts" who were suspected of still practising their "heathen rites" under the cloak of Catholic piety.
The distinction between being a Christian or a heathen is not reducible to a private/public distinction in part because the privately assured Post-Secular Conviviality
They all yielded to this, - the strong, the intelligent, the diligent, submitting to their family, though they knew that their hard-earned pay was going to support weakness, heathenism, and thriftlessness.
He is the prototype of the worst kind of king: a heathen who gathers possessions and wastes them, for his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his majesty.
He went abroad to preach Christianity to the heathen.
Another thing that must be noted in these chapters in Acts was the fact that Paul was in no way going out to evangelise the heathen who had no contact with the good news.
Some contemporaries would have seen the confrontation of the two cultures as an out and out battle, in the case of the improvers a struggle between the forces of civilization and enlightenment, and those of barbarity and heathenism.
Whether the spouses are Hindus or Muslims, Christians or Parsis, pagans or heathens, is wholly irrelevant in the application of these provisions.
Fact is, the wearing of a niqab is a heathen practice, and most certainly NOT Christian. Rev. Alan T Perry should wear a burka « Anglican Samizdat
She learned to pray at two or three, and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven.
That the past must always run into the present, and the present proceed from the past, we readily enough allow as a natural and necessary law; yet baptized heathenism is often heathenism still, under another name. Moon Lore
I don't know how enlightening you've found it, but I hope I have given something of the heathen perspective.
Some young heathen has vandalized the bus shelter.
The Republic declared itself as belonging to the order of Nature; it had rebelled against the old Christian God and had so declared itself heathen, ‘pagan’.
I do not know that I like to think of those Roman mines myself, where it is said the sea now surges back and forth: they must have been worked by British slaves, who may be fancied climbing purblindly out when the legions left Britain, and not joining very loudly in the general lamentation at their withdrawal, but probably tempering the popular grief with the reflection that the heathen Saxons could not be much worse. Seven English Cities
Bondmen and bondmaids might be bought from the heathen round about them; these were left by fathers to their children after them, but it does not appear that the _children_ of these servants ever were reduced to servitude. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The term infidel was used by Christians to describe non-Christians or those perceived as the enemies of Christianity, especially to designate monotheists (Muslims) who do not subscribe to the Judeo-Christian concept of God, and thus differs from heathen or pagan. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Modern apologists slanderously depict the Meccan heathens as fanatics intolerant of Mohammed's innovative cult.
Church of the Redeemed in Glory were amongst the "great cloud of witnesses" who eagerly "peered" down upon the scene, -- when we sat around the Lord's Table and partook the memorials of His body and blood with those few souls rescued out of the Heathen World. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
Jerome and other Fathers called the communion bread -- _little body_, and the communion table -- _mystical table_; the latter, in allusion to the heathen and early Christian mysteries, and the former, in reference to the children sacrificed at the Agapae. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
While there, Harte had borrowed a twenty-dollar gold piece from Gillis, paying him back years later by making him the speaker of his famous poem, “The Heathen Chinee.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
The number of converts, be made having aroused the hostility of the heathen priests, he fled from their anger to the summit of what is now known as St. Thomas's The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
God by his prophets warned them against making these dangerous leagues with foreigners (v. 43): Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, that from the first was fond of leagues with the heathen, of matching with their families (Judg.iii. 6), and afterwards of making alliances with their kingdoms, and, though often disappointed therein, would never be dissuaded from it (this was the adultery she was old in), I said, Will they now commit whoredoms with her and she with them? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Declare his glory among the heathen , his wonders among all people.
According to German folklore, on April 30th witches fly their broomsticks to the mountains for a heathen festival, coinciding with the night the ancient deities conceived spring.
Pullman is about as likely to turn a child into a godless heathen as Rowling is of recruiting a child into a witch's coven -- or Tolkein convincing youths a better life is to be had as a garden gnome. Archive 2010-05-01
U.S. presidential candidates, regardless of their heathendom, know they have to feign interest in religion to get elected, and typically hire consultants to coach them in the finer points of Christian doctrine, such as which half of the Bible the New Testament is found in. Archive 2007-11-01
These four millions of people, must now be educated and christianized -- for you must know that the barbarism of slavery possessed a tendency to heathenize and blot out all signs of manly integrity and Christian virtues, and who better than the A.M. E. Church, can perform this labor? An Apology for African Methodism
The authority proceeded from the state, and therefore before introduction of civil government the gods of the heathen could not be personated. Leviathan
But we shouldn't talk about those heathens during a Christian festival!
Again, this heathen is confused by your "living like Christ" examples! mrs b Abortion rights opponents rip Senate health care bill
The chant sounded as raw as the air, "- honored ancestors, great souls, Honored ancestors, great souls -" over and over, rite of a heathendom that the Tao and the Buddha had barely touched. The Boat of a Million Years
III. þær he hæðen gold warað (_where he guards heathen gold_), 2278; pl. Beowulf
The cultus is the heathen element in the Israelite religion -- the word heathen not being understood, of course, in an ignoble or unworthy sense. Prolegomena
To assert its indisputability would be to acknowledge that we, in pre-colonial times, were literally heathens in need of enlightenment.
To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Their children were heathens, the pair of them.
Parable of the Talents starts in a peaceful religious community led by Lauren Olamina, an empath who founds a faith called Earthseed; Jarret's troops turn this idealistic village into a concentration camp for "heathens" and "witches. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in SF/F/H
Thus, the first order of the new Pax Americana is to bring those we deem as heathens to democracy, to modernize the poor devils, and while we're at it teach them the beauties of a more materialistic culture.
We were wel entertained of heathen people, for the thirde day after our arriuall at Shammaki we were called before the king: we gaue him a present, and he entertained vs very well. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The conflict is keen at first; the Church authorities fight tooth and nail against these relics of heathenism, these devilish rites; but mankind's instinctive paganism is insuppressible, the practices continue as ritual, though losing much of their meaning, and the Church, weary of denouncing, comes to wink at them, while the pagan joy in earthly life begins to colour her own festival. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
But she was serious, and she launched into a tirade of abuse about those damned heathens.
Heathen festivals do not follow the ‘Eight Fold Wheel of the Year’ based on solstices and equinoxes.
The ecclesiastical and religious history exhibition ‘From heathendom to Christianity’ is housed inside Moster Amfi.
In Lev. 17: 7 the word "devil" is the translation of the Hebrew sair, meaning a "goat" or "satyr" (Isa. 13: 21; 34: 14), alluding to the wood-daemons, the objects of idolatrous worship among the heathen. Easton's Bible Dictionary
In the picture which I have given, I have confined myself principally to the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a people who no more deserve the term savage, than the whites do that of heathen, because they have still lingering among them heathen superstitions, and many opinions and practices which deserves no better name. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
I'm getting about a squillion hits every day from Oasis fans looking for the track listing on ‘Heathen Chemistry’.
The word is taken from Hermes, the Greek name for Mercury, the heathen god of arts and learning, and the supposed inventor of chemistry, [9] which is sometimes called the hermetical art; or perhaps from Hermes, an ancient king of Egypt, who was either its inventor, or excelled in it. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
This hymn was tranilated at the requeft of a very learned and ingenious friend of mine, who was pleafed to find fuch juft fentiments of the Deity in a Heathen, and fo nauch poetry in a philofopher. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
It is an anabaptistical tenet, that an heathen magistrate is not from God, which The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
They were for the most part a bunch of heathens always in trouble with the law.
THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
Error, however, like disease, is not easily eradicated; but as men get better acquainted with God, those dark and heathenish conceptions regarding him entertained by Calvinists, such as the foredooming of children and men to endless misery, will give place to nobler thoughts of the Author of our being. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
The religion which rests on reverence for that which is above us, we call the ethnical one; it is the religion of nations, and the first happy redemption from a base fear; all so-called heathen religions are of this kind, let them have what names they will. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
As well as major offerings to the gods or elves, Heathens like to leave gifts for their domestic hidden folk: the wights who live in their garden and house.
Non-Jews (derogatorily referred to as goyim, minim, heathen, or gentiles, by the Jews) are considered to be no better than cattle, according to the Talmud, so their possessions, their land, and even their lives can be taken at will, by the Jews. Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
Note that I personally have nothing against buttfucking the heathen Chinee — but carbon dumped into the atmosphere in China might as well be carbon dumped into the atmosphere in the USA. Matthew Yglesias » Not in Vermont’s Back Yard
The reproach of the heathen is here for ever silenced and justly retorted. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
A heathen is less than a Muslim and a woman is “less than” an man. Think Progress » Controversial Florida Politician Unsure If Muslims Should Hold Public Office, Says He’d ‘Prefer’ If Gays Stayed Out
The heathen men said it was no wonder they had ill weather that autumn; it was all the king's newfangledness and the new law that had made the gods angry. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
Those who attempted to convert the heathen were put to death.
Shortly thereafter, Gwen learns the error of her naïve, girlish, heathen ways.
North America attracted the English Crown as a forward base to attack Spain's possessions, and the Church of England fitfully heeded biblical imperatives to proselytize the heathen.
After the Civil War, however, churchwomen began to address the needs of ‘heathen’ women by organizing separate boards to send single women to the field.
‘All these things smack of heathendom,’ he remarks.
The famous Mr. John Eliot, having business with my uncle, spent the last night with us, a truly worthy man, who, by reason of his great labors among the heathen Indians, may be called the chiefest of our apostles. Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
While the foreigner speaks and writes of superstition, of heathenism, of abominable rites now passing away, the native Hindu press is equally emphatic in its condemnation of what it calls the swinish indulgence of the Anglo-Saxon, his beer-drinking and his gluttony, his craze for money and material power, his disgust at philosophy and all intellectual aspiration, his half-savage love for the chase and the destruction of animal life. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
The number of converts, be made having aroused the hostility of the heathen priests, he fled from their anger to the summit of what is now known as St. Thomas's The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
My enemy maun sen 'for an ootlandish speech and a heathen tongue to insnare ane o' the brethren! Alec Forbes of Howglen
Simplicius, and those heathen philosophers, doctrina et aetate venerandi, Mosis Genesin mundanam popularis nescio cujus ruditatis, quae longa absit a vera Anatomy of Melancholy
It was not at first by any means a Christian Church, but a mere adaptation of those heathen rites which we roughly designate by the term Obe Worship, or ‘Voodoism.’
Choosing between bacon and cheese - two paths towards non-Kosher heathenism - I choose bacon.
Babylon, ') than he, whosoever it was, that of late hath set forth, to the hurt of christian men, certain rhapsodies and shreds of the old forworn stories, almost forgotten -- had he not (Parker) now lately awakened them out of a dead sleep, and newly sewed them together in one book printed; whose glorious life promiseth not mountains of gold, as that silly heathen woman's (the aforesaid Queen) tomb, but beareth Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
It was positively uncanny, the heathen ceremonies those grey ones pulled off in burying their grey brother. SHIN-BONES
Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words. Milton
The difference between the predictions of the Spirit and the oracles of the heathen is remarkable; the Spirit speaks expressly, but the oracles of the heathen were always doubtful and uncertain. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Confronted with such evidence, it would have been understandable if Europeans had looked at tobacco as so inextricably entwined with heathenish practice that they would want nothing to do with the plant.
Call me a heathen if you will, call me a philistine if the whim takes you, but I don't understand most modern art.
I find it rather funny that you racists know they are catholic but excoriate them as godless heathens anyways. Think Progress » Arizona militia recruiting veterans with ‘kill records’ to patrol border.

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