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Recent Examples of paganism
But while the prosecution is arguing that Allen kidnapped and murdered the girls, hiding them in the woods to cover his tracks, Allen’s defense claims that the girls were ritually murdered as a part of a practice of Norse paganism called Odinism.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
Delphi Suspect Claims White Nationalist Pagans Killed 2 Teens — Despite Allegedly Confessing to Wife
Allen’s attorneys have since argued that the girls were murdered by Odinists, who practice a form of Norse paganism and are linked to White nationalism.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
Religion experts say some of the same instincts Vance followed are also driving the growth of interest among younger people in general in gods and goddesses of paganism as well as saints, angels and demons and commemorations of the new moon.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But the Olympics declined once the Roman Empire replaced Greek power in the Mediterranean; the final blow came from the Christian Emperor Theodosius I, who saw the Games as a stage for paganism.
—Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
Delphi Suspect Claims White Nationalist Pagans Killed 2 Teens — Despite Allegedly Confessing to Wife
Allen’s attorneys have since argued that the girls were murdered by Odinists, who practice a form of Norse paganism and are linked to White nationalism.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
Religion experts say some of the same instincts Vance followed are also driving the growth of interest among younger people in general in gods and goddesses of paganism as well as saints, angels and demons and commemorations of the new moon.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But the Olympics declined once the Roman Empire replaced Greek power in the Mediterranean; the final blow came from the Christian Emperor Theodosius I, who saw the Games as a stage for paganism.
—Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
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Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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Like Nef, O’Malley believed in integrating literature, philosophy, and theology to explore fundamental questions.Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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There are serious arguments about the continuing use of the death penalty, both as a matter of public policy and as a matter of moral theology.The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2024
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Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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Read: The collapse of the Khamenei doctrine The end of the Axis is good news.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Russia updated its nuclear doctrine last month to justify a nuclear strike in response to an attack on Russia by a non-nuclear country, if they are backed by a nuclear-armed nation.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
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The point of dogma is to define and defend the borders of acceptable opinion, and brand anyone who goes outside them as quite simply a heretic.Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Still, the results are enough to question the dogma of hybrid works as a here-to-stay scenario.Hilary Tetenbaum, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
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