Word: paganism
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Such religion as there can be in modern life, every Individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself ... I am a pagan . . . the Christian believer lives in a world governed and watched over by God . . . On the other hand, the pagan lives in this world like an orphan...
...congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
...When I wrote that chapter about being a pagan, I had the attitude of an 18th century rationalist: humanity was sufficient unto itself. Now I have come to the realization that humanity is never sufficient unto itself. Man needs something greater outside himself, a sense of unity with God, the knowledge that he is part of a greater whole...
...Barbara (dates unknown) was said to have been martyred by her idolatrous father for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, whereupon a bolt of lightning struck him and he burned to death. Hence, by association, she is patron saint of gunners...
...wife, both university graduates, abandoned hope of further academic schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education on his own. rather than undergo the pagan ceremony, is now working as an unskilled laborer in a cement plant...