Word: paganization
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...Mecca, this was a far more revolutionary proposal than it would have been elsewhere in the pagan world. Polytheism was at the heart of Mecca's economic and social life. If Mecca took a strong stand for a particular god, Mecca's pilgrim business would die. The practical choice for Mecca was polytheism or, if it elected monotheism, the political conquest of all Arabia and the imposition of its one-God religion. To a man, the Mec can leaders rejected Mohammed. But he persisted even after he gradually came to realize that his spiritual kingdom did not have...
...cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...
When the Apostle Paul made his famous speech on Athens' Mars' Hill, declaring to the pagan Athenians the reality of that unknown God whom they ignorantly worshiped, some mocked, and others said, "We will hear thee again of this matter." But most of them doubtless went away and forgot all about...
Part of the north wall is taken up with Rivera's gloomy conception of Mexican history. To him it is symbolized by three things: a pre-Columbian temple with a bloody sacrificial altar before it, a "pagan-Christian" temple with an altar surmounted by a cross, and a "pagan-Christian-capitalist" temple with the altar this time surmounted by a dollar sign...
...anyone takes satisfaction in church statistics, they are certainly entitled to it. When we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that basically our philosophy is pagan. We have just enough of the Christian leaven to make us respectable...