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Recent Examples of paganism
All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Up until the 5th century, these types of precious metal amulets typically exhibited influences from other faiths and belief systems, including Judaism and paganism.
—Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
The non-specific prayer hints at an innate paganism, a murky complexity roiling beneath Ellen’s adolescent purity; that double nature is increasingly manifest in Depp’s performance as the plot advances.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Up until the 5th century, these types of precious metal amulets typically exhibited influences from other faiths and belief systems, including Judaism and paganism.
—Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
The non-specific prayer hints at an innate paganism, a murky complexity roiling beneath Ellen’s adolescent purity; that double nature is increasingly manifest in Depp’s performance as the plot advances.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paganism
Noun
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The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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The pontiff has been critical of the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants and has disputed Vance’s interpretation of theology.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Elwell taught graduate students at Wheaton and specialized in Christology, which is the branch of theology concerning Jesus Christ.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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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Church doctrine calls for the pope to be buried four to six days after his death, unless there are extenuating circumstances.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Conservative Catholics in America charged that Francis’ doctrine of inclusion was damaging the church and depriving the faithful.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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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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Both the ancient dogma of maternal impression and the emerging ethos of Silicon Valley baby-coders offer the promise of control.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Villa Aalto, with its modest rooms, charming front portico, traditional hip roofline, and wooden beams, speaks to the easy sincerity of his early designs: vernacular elements at odds with the Modernist dogmas of the day.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Paganism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paganism. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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