Word: paganisms
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...Upon him crashed an avalanche of letters from crusty Shanghai Britons and their wives. Was the Church of England going to do "irreparable damage to British prestige" in China? Was a "bazaar girl," as the English ladies expressed it, to be wed in a Christian Cathedral pack-jammed with pagan guests and with Chinese floodlights and Chinese sound cameras perpetuating the scene to be flung before slant-eyed millions in Chinese newsreels...
...Empire, such as that in the current January issue of Foreign Affairs, and the facts are evident. In trifling quantity a few Christians are to be found near Addis Ababa, and the Coptic Christians, to which faith the Imperial Family appertains, form an island in the Mohammedan and pagan sea of peoples which is Ethiopia...
...fault of modern thought in regard to theology, continued Dr. Temple, is an attempt to make a comparative study of religion. Psychology in particular tends to do this. "It is wrong to make a sharp distinction between truth and falsehood, for in every religion Christian or pagan there is some element of truth...
Simultaneously 9,000,000 boys & girls of the Hitler Youth were mustered in Summer Solstice Festivals frankly pagan. Mostly these were held on the "sacred German soil" of mountain tops not too difficult of ascent. At some the apple-cheeked, wondering children were invited to cast any sins which they felt they had committed upon Nazi bonfires in which the sins would be consumed...
...experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked...