How To Use heathenism In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- Judaism, so far from being merged in heathenism, made inroads by conversions on the idolatry of surrounding nations. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Throughout history the tattoo bears the mark of paganism, demonism, Baal worship, shamanism, mysticism, heathenism, cannibalism and just about every other pagan belief known.
- We may shudder at the "heathenism" of a Turkish harem, and send missionaries to convert the Mohammedans; we may stand aghast at the idea of twenty thousand Syrian women sold to supply the harems of the Mussulmans, and pour out our money like water to relieve or release them; but wherein is all this a whit worse than what is constantly practiced, with scarce a word of unfavorable comment, in our own "Christian" (?) land? Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.
- The Apostle has been describing in very severe terms the godlessness and corruption of heathenism. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
- To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
- It went too far for heathenism, not far enough for Christianity.
- Ironically we find that this mixture of heathenism and paganism is rather like living in the primitive church.
- 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 battleaxes; and proposing mere Heathenism, confiscation, spoliation, and fire and sword, -- Edmund answered that he would oppose to the utmost such savagery. Past and Present
