pagan
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“Stobaeus offers his son a strictly pagan view of the afterlife, as a grim and joyless eternity spent underground.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Both authors admired the way that the medievals combined pagan virtues with Christian theology to sustain a culture that was simultaneously vital and humane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Judith Mair, a visiting professor at Edinburgh Napier University says the festival of Hogmanay in Scotland goes back to pagan times.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
“It goes back to pagan times when we’d get together for the harvest and feasting. Humans don’t really need much reason to get together and party, and this is our alternative to religion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
The growing Christian Church was consolidating its power and attempting to eradicate pagan influence and culture.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the ’90s, Westwood took a lot of inspiration from pagans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
And at Stonehenge's equinox celebrations in England, druids, pagans, and anyone else who wants to join in gather to witness the sunrise over the ancient stones.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 21, 2023
Stonehenge was built by pagans, the Washington Monument was built by Masons and the Statue of Liberty was built by the French.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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