paganism

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Recent Examples of paganism Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own. Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024 The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024 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. 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 See all Example Sentences for paganism 
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Noun
  • Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Both impulses ultimately derive, however, from his attempts to synthesize science, particularly evolution, with theology.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The lowest-paying positions are in theology and religion, which yield an average yearly salary of $38,710 and drew only 437 students for the year.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.
    Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • What Clarence Thomas Has Said on Obergefell Thomas, the court's most conservative judge, wrote in a dissenting opinion in Obergefell that the majority opinion stretched the doctrine of substantive due process rights found in the Fourteenth Amendment too far.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Christian doctrine teaches that at the end of time, God will restore each person’s body, reuniting it with their soul.
    Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • The inability of adults to produce new neurons was pretty much the central dogma of neuroscience until the 1960s.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Too much chasing after money and success, too much pandering to the popular taste, too much weight on ideology or politics or dogma of any stripe, and God, in the cogent phrase of Quincy Jones, walks out of the room.
    Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024

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