Word: paganism
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...said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...
...There is no country today which seeks to make a peace according to the desire and wisdom of the Christ-God. We are in for a peace of expediency. . . . That may be the best peace we can get, since all the nations are pagan; but at least we ought to be honest enough to admit that such a peace is contrary to the will...
...Chavantes live the Bororos. Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...
...past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always death...
...seems incredible, therefore, that a nation which has been so consistently true to the impulses of human kindness and the teachings of the Catholic Church should now yield to a false, pagan code of tyranny because of blood and race. How can men of good will fail to heed those solemn words of Pope Pius XI: 'Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the sublime reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Christians cannot share. Spiritually we are Semites...