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Finally, this modern pagan vehemently objects to the use of the word 'bastard' to describe anyone's children. I believe in family planning, but after children are born they should be loved and supported unconditionally, not gratuitously stigmatized on the basis of obsolete concepts such as 'legitimacy'. Carsey Yee GSAS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGuire Overrates His Own Views | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...depicts the Sanhedrin as a political body that collaborated with the Roman occupation forces and lacked any religious legitimacy. "Neither ((Jesus')) religious teachings nor his beliefs could have been on trial -- only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan as well as Christian, to argue that the Sanhedrin was the single recognized Jewish panel that treated both religious and political matters, albeit under the Roman thumb and therefore seen as corrupt by Jews in later years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Was Christ Crucified? | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

Iran has attempted to prohibit the ritual because of its pre-Islamic, "pagan" origins, Chehabi said...

Author: By Leo H. Cheung, | Title: Persians 'Jump Fire' at Winthrop | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...sample project would have a student work with a neo-pagan group and explore their sense of reli- giosity," Mitchell said...

Author: By Marcus R. Wohlsen, | Title: Supernatural Class Offers Witches, Ouijas | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...horns and hooves come from his commingling with beliefs banished by a victorious Christianity. The devil's appurtenances derive from the great Greek god Pan -- half-man, half- goat -- and from association with the cult of the forest deity Cernunnos of northern Europe. Relegated to the shadows, the pagan gods were absorbed by the master of darkness, the demigod on the margins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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