Neither Pagan nor Mahometan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
I consider myself a pagan and a witch.
I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.
behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
It was deliciously pagan.
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.
Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.
I'm pagan.
Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.
