How To Use Pagan In A Sentence

  • That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
  • We have a good deal of information about the polemical and often bitter arguments Christians, Jews, and pagans had with one another in the early centuries.
  • I wish people would bother to learn some history instead of regurgitating propaganda.
  • Literature is no longer "bookish" -- but practical, social, propagandist. Studies in Early Victorian Literature
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  • Thompson claimed that his grandmother, who lived in Blyth, Northumberland, was a pagan high priestess, and that she had passed on her powers to him. Sex cult leader jailed for forcing girlfriend into sex with others
  • In neopaganism, the spring and autumn equinoxes are called Ostara and Mabon, respectively, although these names are modern in origin and don't correspond to any ancient festivals. CBC | Top Stories News
  • One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
  • The Front adopted an aggressive propaganda campaign against its rivals.
  • And the intention of the work is purely propagandistic - it is not to stimulate thought, but to close it down. Times, Sunday Times
  • This keeps getting censored by the Lamontster scrub out the truth squads .. he has to protect his propagandists for hire, as he's too chickenhearted to let the CT voters decide for themselves CT-SEN: Lamont Hits Back At Lieberman Terror Slam
  • Separate from the slapping lesbians, a battle began to rage between the lesbians who were pagans versus the lesbians who were Christians, and then the lesbians who wanted to have “baster babies” factioned off, too. Roseanne Archy
  • Years later, after their defeat, they finally understood how far from international norms they were and saw a change in the youngest element of their society, so they began a counterpropaganda campaign. The Coming Revolution
  • Apparently, today's purveyors of pagan religions have sidestepped this question by changing the labels.
  • It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
  • During the neverending arguments about women priests even the women concerned were mostly scrupulous about not using the ‘pagan’ term priestess, extraordinary misrepresentations of Jesus' followers were cited as ‘proof’ that women were not meant to be members of the clergy. The Templar Revelation
  • We may show our Paganism through our jewelry or our bumper stickers, or the pentagram we trace over our meals as we bless them.
  • And the third, a lapsed neopagan, revived her religious practice online and was the only one of the three who stayed there.
  • 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
  • This propaganda was drilled into American soldiers for more than a year before the war.
  • Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • They even set up their own news agency to peddle anti-isolationist propaganda.
  • This is why I tend to be an advocate for joining groups - not only magical ‘working’ groups but going along to pagan moots and the like too.
  • Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
  • However, Jenkins said demands for reburial were now coming from minority groups in Britain, including pagans and druids, while Manchester consulted the group Honouring the Ancient Dead, which campaigns for reburial of pre-Christian British remains, before removing the Worsley Man head. Museums avoid displaying human remains 'out of respect'
  • But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
  • When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
  • Archaeology does not yield reliable information about paganism.
  • Of course it’s romanticized from the point of view of a southerner, but that’s nowhere near any “propaganda for the slave system”. Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
  • I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
  • If your path, whether you are Pagan or otherwise, whether you are Witch or cowan, also moves you, or if it has value that doesn't even compare with the value I find in mine, then can you really say it is a religion like any other? Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week
  • Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
  • More serious, however, was the ineffectiveness of official propaganda in favour of the war.
  • Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur. Pan-Islam
  • I am deeply concerned about the propaganda and false arguments from those who oppose nuclear power.
  • I also must report that I've visited France and no doubt succumbed to certain attempts to propagandize me.
  • Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true. Matthew Yglesias » Chait Responds
  • There are some other branches of Norse paganism though where there is more study and includes an autotheist element the Odhianism of the Rune Gild is a good example. The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:
  • After seven years as a very part-time adjunct, I'm still amused by how irked my students are by all the things I don't know, examples of which have included medieval embroidery, Celtic languages, metallurgy, neopaganism, Scottish history, regional developments in medieval agriculture, and the 40 most recent fantasy novels about Arthur and Guenevere. Beowulf Hobbyists of the World, Unite!
  • Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
  • And I think they're named in one of the pagan hagiologies, aren't they? A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • The closest was pagan-topologist making the world a greener place. What Would You Be Willing to Die for?
  • Convert pagans to christianity; was converted to pacifism by the war.
  • We may note on the other hand that a rubric in the official "Rituale Romanum" enjoins that the priest ought to see that unbecoming or ridiculous names of deities or of godless pagans are not given in baptism (curet ne obscoena, fabulosa aut ridicula vel inanium deorum vel impiorum ethnicorum hominum nomina imponantur). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
  • While a propagandist only presents one side, the fact is that no one side is seamless or blameless.
  • At the time, Salten was his conservative counter force at the New Free Press, the paper on the forefront of war propaganda, and wrote feuilletons.
  • It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
  • Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom. Libertas Praestantissimum
  • These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.
  • He was brought up on a diet of political propaganda from birth.
  • Bealtaine, apart from being the Irish word for the month of May, was a festival in pagan Ireland celebrating Spring and heralding the arrival of Summer.
  • The Guttmacher Institute has looked at the effects of comprehensive sex education - the sort where the facts are presented, not just antisex propaganda and wishful thinking. Boys & Girls Together
  • He created a spare, white-daubed, timber-framed presentation that evokes a pagan feeling, yet is modern in offering immediate access to the text. A British Monarch Crosses the Atlantic
  • Suddenly the powerful propaganda machine of the big media concerns was no longer able to achieve the desired affect.
  • And a very big part of their struggle is with the structure of power, and especially wealth, among Muslims because that is largely based on practices that are at best murkily understood even by professionals, and which are easily attacked by propagandists, e.g,, the World Bank causes poverty. Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
  • Associated Press In the centuries after the Reformation, some Protestants, notably the Puritans in England, sought to ban Christmas celebrations as pagan bacchanals, which they often were. No Church This Sunday—It's Christmas
  • And to call the ayatollah's words lame propaganda ignores the fact that it is so effective in rallying our enemies. "This defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."
  • For the pagan and the Temple mystic, however, the world is not God's place; instead, God is the place of the world.
  • But through Kanafani's literary output, Gaon says, he found a man of more subtlety than is revealed in the words of a propagandist. 'Return to Haifa' crosses borders of war
  • He was an honoured Christian poet in the court of the Umayyads and an ardent propagandist of this dynasty.
  • written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers
  • Their pagan and, we regret to say, anthropophagous habits laid them open to a certain amount of criticism. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.
  • For a reader who knows the primary sources, it is a rich pleasure to see Roman antiquity so thoroughly and feelingly brought back to life. Harris is very modern, very pagan, even raunchy at times, just as the Romans must have been.
  • In the lift I took to go home yesterday, someone had attached a sheet of paper which said ‘Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship’.
  • They are arguing and propagandising around their own point of view.
  • This ritual suggests the pagan belief in the baptism by blood rather than water as being more binding.
  • Bob Koke, who was just back from Singapore, took the opportunity to ask about the notorious Bali hotel proprietress turned radio propagandist Surabaya Sue, who seemed to be working as a spokesperson for his administration. A Covert Affair
  • Why would a union launch such a propaganda campaign against a behemoth like Bell, based on some bare-faced lie?? Bell Canada spy cams in tech trucks
  • The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.
  • In addition, female figures were prominent in the Irish Catholic hagiolatry of the area, harking back to the powerful position of goddesses and female druids in the pagan Celtic belief system, a status that carried over into early Celtic Christianity. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • This is the lesson of the 1930s, which Republican/libertarian/right-wing propaganda has striven mightily, and successfully, to erase from the American memory, allowing it to happen all over again. xearther Bush Team Seeks Dictatorial Financial Powers « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Does Paganism belong under the New Age umbrella?
  • The four kingdoms soon relapsed into paganism, and initially only Kent was reconverted.
  • These people who, while believing in a god and goddess, follow the ancient pagan religions that revere the wonders and beauty of nature and its changing seasons.
  • Some tattoos are of course more obvious in their meaning, but a good number of others draw on mythology, pagan runes, organizational logos and acronyms.
  • That's what public relations propaganda is all about - conning frail, vain humans.
  • In a recent article, John Pilger quotes historian Mark Curtis 'characterization of "unworthy victims" as "unpeople" while Herman and Chomsky explain the "propaganda system," played out in the dominant media, characterizes people abused and victimized by us or our client states as "unworthy. "Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
  • The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
  • The site has always been well known as a sacred pagan centre and burial ground. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
  • The usual evolutionist hand-waving and bait-and-switch tactics were employed in a grand piece of propaganda.
  • This ritual suggests the pagan belief in the baptism by blood rather than water as being more binding.
  • The question of sanctity versus profanity is one which every Pagan, Wiccan, or Witch confronts and comes to terms with at some point on their spiritual path.
  • With reference to the function that a university should play in moulding national sentiment, for example, I have always had the view, and have never hesitated to declare it in public, that a great university should be a great propaganda of national feeling and national sentiment, and to me that means a propaganda of Imperial sentiment. Education and Empire Unity
  • It addresses what was then the fraught issue of food left over from pagan worship. Times, Sunday Times
  • In her dream the horse caracoled to the tempo of Paganini, and its rider at one moment had the face of Mandras, and at another that of the captain. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • I have a hard time with it, knowing that if my brother ever found out I was, you know, * festive*, he'd likely think I was too perverted to be near his kids and grandkids, even though I'm chaste and have been even back when I was a neopagan and didn't believe chastity was mandated or even all that great. Keeping the Riff-Raff Out of Heaven
  • Paganism appealed to me because of the freedom to follow my heart.
  • The frequent theft of chrism from churches for magical purposes is a case in point; surely this was not a clear indicator of persistent paganism.
  • Democracy depends on an informed citizenry, and the right wing consciously strives to misinform the American public by erasing the distinction between journalism and propaganda.
  • It is also a storehouse with new breathers, dosimeters and soviet propagandistic literature.
  • Many books that are superficially history books are easily detected as political propaganda or inspirational froth.
  • As an old part organ played a great role in our long - time Administrivia propagandize enterprise.
  • Paganism: If you send shit out into the world, it will return to you threefold.
  • Although many modern pagans do not consider themselves to be witches both spiritual outlooks remain largely concerned with a naturalistic approach to spirituality.
  • You have still suggested that, as a Norse Neopagan, I should be prevented from being a foster parent (I would note that I am also an advocate of reviving animal sacrifice within Norse neopaganism). The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home
  • What should have been a propaganda coup for Germany turned out to be the opposite.
  • Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
  • In just a few months a small number of campaigners fought against the expensive and glossy propaganda pushed out by the privateers.
  • In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda.
  • The official propaganda machine went into overdrive when war broke out.
  • She also sells pointed boots, tight black trews, crinolines, and hooped corsets (which use steel rather than whalebone) along with jewellery and accessories hinting at pagan and alternative sub-cultures
  • As a Neo-Pagan who believes in the immanent nature of Divinity, I am a great believer that all of the Earth is sacred.
  • Lately, you have attempted to cloak your actions in falsehoods and propaganda.
  • Also, we would probably score a moral victory over the terrorists, since we show that we will not stoop to their levels and treat prisoners of war as “enemy combatants”, wich is what they want so they can use it for their propaganda. Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war.
  • To the rest of the world, beck is a fascist propagandist preaching sedition and hatred. Think Progress » Ailes Defends Beck’s Incendiary Rhetoric: ‘He’s Talking About Hitler And Stalin’ Killing People, So It’s ‘Accurate’
  • Christianity in the social relations of master and slave is plain from the exceedingly small number of inscriptions containing the words servus (slave), or libertus (freedman), words which are constantly seen on pagan gravestones; the often recurring expression alumnus (foster-child) characterizes the new relation between the owner and the owned. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Our concern here is to emphasize the billions of small wrangles that were altering the collective thought, to summon out of the past, for an instant, an elfin clamour of now silenced voices that prepared the soil for revolution, the not-at-all-lucid propagandists at street corners, the speakers in little meeting-houses, in open spaces and during work intermissions; to recall the rustle of queer newspapers that were not quite ordinary newspapers; and the handicapped book publications that were everywhere fighting traditional and instinctive resistances. The Shape of Things to Come
  • It is their sneaky methods, of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of intelligence.
  • This sector plays a central role by influencing the public, who willingly buy into its propaganda.
  • Judaism and paganism both practiced the pouring of sacrificial libations of both blood and wine.
  • Here, finally, we come to the heart of the difference between the oracles of the pagan Greeks of the classical period and the revelations of the prophets of the People of the Book.
  • (DSE Bulletin, 7 July 1949) 52This special role of women fuelled the abuse they received in countermovement propaganda. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
  • I'd hoped to do better having spent a good portion of my life in America, ingesting top-shelf propaganda.
  • By not taking on this issue head-on to explain why this intervention has nothing to do with the colonial past or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which asked for military intervention as Libyans have, Obama allowed Gaddafi's crude anti-imperialist and anti-crusader propaganda to stand. Joe Lauria: "Time and Space" for Libyan Rebels
  • Within Paganism, I think that there's a misconception that being pantheistic equals the absence of wrong.
  • He replaced his brother Vladimir Rassate, who was deposed and blinded on the orders of their father Boris I, for his efforts to reconvert the country to paganism.
  • Was he unconverted and just as lost as any pagan idolater in the ancient world?
  • According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth, who was promised to a pagan.
  • Perhaps only a long period of education or propaganda could remove our abhorrence.
  • They offered up thanksgiving on this day, and paraded about with flambeaux and candles -- proceedings which some thought were too close imitations of the Pagan customs of _brenning_ -- in honour of Juno. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • Having been involved in forms of propaganda, and having observed Carol Reed at work, I was fairly well equipped to deal with a semidocumentary subject of this nature, and I was at home with the more or less academic camera techniques of the time. An Autobiography
  • At least in its outward forms, this religion does not look so very different from that of the pagan Britons under Roman rule.
  • For decades, the propagandists of ‘economic reform’ have held up the US as proof that their program will work.
  • The typical Czech "greengrocer" - Havel's famous description of the symbolic Czech Everyman - did not believe Soviet propaganda, but felt helplessly enmeshed in it. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Externally, a range of print media is available for the insertion of company propaganda, should the occasion arise.
  • The fear of revenge by the Stalinist system against turncoats and prisoners of war was dispelled by references, in German Wehrmacht propaganda - in accordance with the claims of the Goebbels Propaganda Ministry - to the near collapse of the Stalinist state, brought about, if not directly by German victory, then at least by inner opposition inside the country. The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • Seems that despite the popular propaganda perpetuated by the corporate media that the academy is a bastion for 'tenured radicals' is nowhere near the reality. La Profesora Abstraida
  • They sent up a fragrance of sweet oil and illuminated the soft wall-paintings of pagan heroes and gods.
  • American propaganda painted him as unbalanced and remote from reality.
  • This is because the term bandwidth is propaganda aimed towards stretching the painful process of a company with technological and consumer preferences grossly outdated. GigaOM Network
  • What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
  • Paganism, which embraces a variety of groups including Druids, witches and followers of the Viking god Odin, is one of the fastest growing religions in the UK.
  • A little bit further, pushed out of sight of the ruffianly soldier in suit and tie, a few protesters too few, who were still saving the opposition honor in this France visit, which was as much propaganda as business, with a strong oil smell. Chavez in Paris: an American in Paris it is not*
  • What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
  • They find the Temple defiled and turned into a pagan sanctuary.
  • For most of them, they have grown up hearing distant propagandist rumblings from the mainland all their life, and in the tradition of the boy who cried wolf, the fear is rather underwhelming.
  • He realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors.
  • AFTERSNARK: One wonders what Stephen Harper propagandist and personal fellatrix Sandy Crux thinks of this fascinating approach regarding fiscal efficiency and budget cuts. Archive 2008-08-01
  • The propagandists were often as skilful and as devious as the great Prussian Junker himself.
  • C) Americans are like the Germans of the 1933, they want a strong leader ruler), they submit to extensive eavesdroping and spying, and welcome the government control of the media: propaganda. Think Progress » ThinkFast: November 6, 2006
  • Nationalism which is the result not of race but of education, depends for its existence almost entirely on so-called ethnological propaganda and continues to thrive by the cultivation of two propositions, neither of which is true: that all the members of one national group are racially different from all the members of the neighbouring group; and that this racial difference naturally and necessarily and properly implies the mutual hatred of the two nations. The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade
  • The corporate news, class "toadies", class thugs, propagandized for the bail out, over the objection of a democratic majority. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • It had a pagan, primitive look, like some kind of armlet or anklet, yet it was too big for an arm or an ankle. COMPULSION
  • In the Christian dispensation the neighbour is not only one of the true faith, but the schismatic , the outcast, and the pagan.
  • These prophecies are often reduced to the status of propaganda only, downplaying their religious value as interpretations of history, parenesis, and actualization of past authoritative utterances.
  • Propaganda: CO2 Cuts May Not Change Daily Life Much hosted. ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans 'day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say. WN.com - Business News
  • Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
  • As in the four other pictures, one glimpses a passing figure, perhaps the wraith of paganism.
  • To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point.
  • What is missing is some sense of the thrust of the propaganda effort.
  • Ministry, the Giolittian organ, the Stampa, of Turin, has dropped something of its feverish neutralistic propaganda, the New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • The contest for client states that reached through Africa, Asia and the Middle East produced sponsored mobs on the streets and incessant streams of competing propaganda.
  • For thousands of years, music has played an important role in human civilisation, from religious and pagan ceremonies to rituals and social events.
  • But there is a world of difference between holding as we do that people of goodwill of all races and cultures should preserve our God-given differences through mutually agreed separation, and the brutal and politically disastrous hatred exhibited by the '14 Words' cultists when they describe the unfortunate young victims of propaganda-induced racial integration as 'muds' and want to expel a grandfather from the BNP because his grown-up daughter fell in love with an African. The British National Party
  • The Olympics were of great propaganda value to the regime.
  • There is a creative tension between Pagan ideas and more Christian ones.
  • For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole.
  • Priests and laymen of all three religions organized educational institutions and missionary propaganda.
  • And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them. Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
  • I think most people in witchcraft or paganism practise in a solitary way,’ she said.
  • But her fearful soul hasn't shut down: vide her visible delight in the pagan abandon with which her beautiful child solo-dances - to Alanis Morissette's ‘You Oughta Know’ - beside a corral full of startled emus.
  • When one pagan group was ordered to dismantle a totem pole over which libations were poured, they simply placed a bust of Lenin on top and continued as before.
  • I mean honestly I don't have any problem with Jews, but I do have a problem with the ignorance of those who comfort themselves with the propaganda spewed out by the Israeli government and then expurge this same propaganda onto those of us who aren't so easily brainwashed. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Despite the anti-Byelorussian propaganda from certain media, the neutral election observers have affirmed the vote was free and fair. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
  • The new favored term is ‘the pro-family movement,’ but that's so overtly propagandistic - secularists are anti-family?
  • Namque stultorum aliqui Paganorum huiusmodi adorant animalia propter colorum, odorumque virtutem. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • How has pagan idolatry, the very same sort of idolatry that Paul encountered in Ephesus, corrupted much of the Christian-professing world?
  • NOTES: Labor historian Philip Foner says "The Dream of Debs" predicted the San Francisco general strike of 1934, that it is a small classic of working class propaganda and that it was reprinted in pamphlet form and had a huge circulation in labor circles. “. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.”
  • Eiriz's works resist the world and maintain a critical space apart from the propaganda of the world in a way profoundly akin to Adorno's formulation; they stand as powerful and moving signposts on the road to Dystopia.
  • Especially Africa, because I think conquest and advertisement and television and religion has succeeded in manipulating the international African people into a pool of consumership and cheap labour, and in the process has divorced us from admiration of our heritage and relegated our heritage to being primitive and backward and pagan and barbaric; and we've come to believe as a society that fallacy. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • One official dismissed the ceasefire as a mere propaganda exercise.
  • Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.
  • Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media.
  • Crowley's own voluminous writings, published and unpublished, contain no reference to a religion of pagan witches.
  • •The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio
  • The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
  • “Confound the nyctalopia!” said Paganel, inwardly, though delighted to be of any service to his friend. In Search of the Castaways
  • Tobernalt is an ancient, pagan assembly place, approximately three miles east of Sligo town, near the shores of Lough Gill.
  • Another thing there is the sacrificial law the dietary law the clothing law the judicial law. there are 613 commandents a theocracy to seperate the israelites from the pagans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
  • Prepare to be told about sailing routes and prevailing weather conditions in the North Atlantic; pagan Norse baby naming traditions; Icelandic domestic life, including details of clothes, furniture, diet and agriculture; Norse witchcraft (seidr) and prophetesses (volva); Norse ship design; Irish social structure, monastic organisation, medicine and law. Archive 2006-07-01
  • There are two Pagan landowners in this metro area who host regional festivals and rent their properties to individuals and groups for special rituals.
  • But nevertheless, we note that the new cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine.
  • That explains why a regime of immanence has to be delivered with the forceps of a revolutionary fervour and needs to replace education, reflection, information and analysis with propaganda.
  • The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
  • She declined - at least in part because she was already propagandising expertly for her own causes.
  • Wartime propaganda commonly has the same effect, demonizing the other side, even when both sides expect the war to end with a negotiated peace.
  • She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess. I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
  • Anawrahta's capital, Pagan, was sacked by the Mongols in 1287 and the city with its many thousand pagodas and temples was abandoned.
  • They'll-get-you-coming-and-going, from his Grove entry: Apart from [his appointment as Abbot of] Löpsingen, he had three sources of income — a stipend from the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome, the abbacy of San Stefano in Carrara, near Padua, and a provostship in the Rhenish town of Seltz. Was (Not Was)
  • Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple
  • When the propaganda is the truth it follows logically that your "truth" is really the propaganda. Sound Politics: McDermott: Bring Back Baath Party
  • He goes to pagan shrines, worships disgusting idols, and lends money for profit.
  • The ability to provide real and ready financial aid is totally different from a continuous provision of propagandist advice only.
  • The reason is that there were some bad pagan customs surrounding cemeteries, and he wanted to distance his people from them.
  • Please do no show this so-called docudrama, it is nothing but propaganda. Think Progress » New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush
  • It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies, renew the propaganda war, and once more undertake large-scale petitioning.
  • Ephesus prospered for several centuries, but when Christianity came to the region, people began to abandon the pagan religion of Artemis.
  • I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.
  • We take new names, sit zazen, become Sufis, Taoists, neo-pagans, devotees of Kali and Vedanta. The 'Future of God' Debate

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