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These two are obviously men of "magnitude" in Aristotle's sense, and they produce a true tragic catharsis. The conflict is dramatic in many other ways: a Christian vs. a Pagan, a bastard vs. a bastard, an intelligent illiterate vs. an intelligent illiterate, an older man vs. a younger...
...well aware that the process of drawing the workers back into the church's fold will be long and difficult. Among French workers nowadays, according to a recent government survey, the percentage of practicing Catholics runs from 2% to 10% ; many millions can quite reasonably be called pagan...
...first two centuries of Christian history, church leaders were forced to defend the value of procreation against Manichaeans and Gnostic heretics who saw in the Biblical counsels about virginity a commandment to abstain from sex entirely. Christians also had to defend the sanctity of life against a pagan Rome that accepted both abortion and contraception as a way of life...
Wild Side. Back in the 1870s, the destitute Dreiser family was the talk of Terre Haute. Father John Paul was a religious fanatic who rarely worked. Mother Sarah was a warm-blooded mystical pagan who rarely worried. There were ten Dreiser children, most of them on the wild side, one of them, Paul Dresser, destined for fame as a songwriter. Lonely, nervous Theodore clung to his mother's skirts and suckled himself on fantasies of success. Restless to realize them, he dropped out of high school after one year, worked sporadically, somehow got into Indiana State University-again dropped...
...five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...