Word: paganism
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...tapestries, representing the four seasons of life, are crowded with enough human figures, astrological signs, pagan gods and goddesses, animals, buildings and landscapes to satisfy the most voracious gallerygoer. They gave an added fillip to the Met's opening last week of its refurbished galleries of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative...
...town, circa 1920. Second of his novels to be published in the U.S. within a year, it is a striking demonstration of literary virtuosity for Kazantzakis. The hero of his Zorba the Greek was a neo-Hellenic Pan who seemed to have goat-footed his way straight out of pagan mythology. The Greek Passion is a powerful parable of the Christian conscience and a high mark for the rest of 1954's novelists...
...Communism is a Christian heresy," "Naziism ... is pagan." To all but partisan Socialists, the similarities must seem more than their differences . . . We are piously asked to remember Soviet sacrifices (for us?) in World War II, but presumably asked to forget that Communism was first the accomplice of Naziism and, indeed, that the collusion of these monstrous philosophies brought about that war. These systems were competitors-not opposites. Yet we are invited to extend Christian charity to the Communists and implacable hostility to Franco, Rhee or Chiang. A curiously selective charity...
...That "Communism is a Christian heresy, but Naziism was anti-Christian paganism" is "oversimplification" of itself. Communism, ideologically, is not simply an attempt to weaken Christianity, but to destroy all religions and Communism is even more pagan than Naziism ... If such muddleheaded thinking as Mr. Driberg's is typical of the British Labor Party, then thank the Lord for Sir Winston...
...Death is not a repugnant thing," he says. "It is an act of God, and as such must be respected and praised. From the novitiate of Guadix, we plan to send men all over Spain. Cemeteries are turning pagan. We want to make them Christian again...