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The ancient village had pagan rituals that worshipped the sun and the changing seasons.pagan = non-mainstream religious
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Pagan traditions were blended into Christian holidays.
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And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating"—were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions. (source)pagan = an offensive term for a person who follows a non-mainstream religion
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Did you know that when Christian cavalry first appeared in the New World, the pagans thought horse and rider was one person? (source)pagans = an offensive term for people who follow non-mainstream religions
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The Reverend said he did not want any trouble with savages and pagans and such. (source)
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Dad sat on the sofa the whole time, laughing and telling Mom that he was doing her a favor because trees were pagan symbols of worship.† (source)
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Miss Violence did not consider these pictures very nice — the statues looked pagan, and also bloodthirsty — but Laura was not to be deterred.† (source)
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Even the pagans of Wales and Ireland eventually decided that we were all malevolent faeries and shape-shifting ghosts.† (source)pagans = an offensive term for people who follow non-mainstream religions
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It was hard to remember when one summer day after another broke with a cool effulgence over us, and there was a breath of widening life in the morning air—something hard to describe—an oxygen intoxicant, a shining northern paganism, some odor, some feeling so hopelessly promising that I would fall back in my bed on guard against it.† (source)
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Be nice to have a booty-kicking army of pagan zombies on our side when we enter the House of Hades.† (source)
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"You're pagans," I say, taking the condom with two fingers and dropping it in Lindsay's glove compartment.† (source)
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Beowulf is largely about the coming of Christianity into the old paganism of northern Germanic society—after being about a hero overcoming a villain.† (source)
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Apart from Andy—cryptic, isolated, self-sufficient, incapable of dishonesty and completely lacking in both malice and charisma—the other Barbours, even Todd, all had something slightly uncanny about them, a watchful, sly amalgam of decorum and mischief that made it all too easy to imagine their forebears gathering in the forest by night, casting off their Puritan garb to frolic by the pagan bonfire.† (source)
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My ears echoed with a delirious, inconsolable passage from the St. Matthew Passion which had wept out of Sophie's radio earlier that morning, and for no special reason yet in fitting 'antiphony I recalled some seventeenth-century lines I had read not long before: "...since Death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ..."† (source)
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But the Marquesa did not only satisfy the rites of paganism; she studied the prescriptions of Christianity as well.† (source)
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"From pagan times," said Abanazer.† (source)
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