pagan造句怎麼寫

Mari Lwyd, an old midwinter custom in Wales, is a holdover from pagan celebrations before Christmas was introduced.

Every book that he wrote, every scrap of dialogue, had to demonstrate beyond the possibility of mistake the superiority of the Catholic over the Protestant or the pagan.

Revellers celebrate as the sun rises behind Stonehenge during the pagan festival 'Summer Solstice' in Wiltshire in southern England, on June 21, 2010. AFP / Getty Images / Carl Court

Visitors to this ancient pagan site have keenly watched the night sky above Wiltshire since prehistoric times, an activity that continues to this day, despite the presence of nearby A roads.

So, Kaufman says that the pagan worldview is one of an amoral universe ; Not a moral universe; not an immoral universe; But an amoral universe. It is morally neutral.

Kaufman asserts that mythology is basic to pagan religions.

And a pagan was elected to the New York City Council.

Unlike in the pagan Greek cosmos, there could be no divine bodies in the Christian cosmos.

Narrow-waisted and long-limbed, they seem to hark back more to the Kouros figures of classical Greece: abstract, rhythmic and ready for some pagan dance.

But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Year's Day was no different.

The pagan cult, Kaufman claims, is a system of rites.

Bunnies, eggs, Easter gifts and fluffy, yellow chicks in gardening hats all stem from pagan roots.

Their plan was to remove the emotional ties of the Church and merge Christmas into a Julfest, a celebration of winter and light which drew on pagan traditions.

Ironic indeed that pagan Rome here would have this longstanding influence upon Christianity.

Separation entails also separation to God's service. That means, of course, the observance of his laws, especially the laws of purity, the rejection of pagan practices, and so on.

There was no tolerance when I told my third-grade class that Santa Claus was pagan and a lie.