impieties

Poictiers decided that our Liturgy contains "impieties," and that Satan was the real author of the work!

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

Behold, behold the innocent Jesus, the spotless Lamb, suddenly become the goat of abomination, burdened with the crimes, the impieties, the blasphemies of all mankind.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

For the guilty, on the other hand, even a strong body is to no avail, since his soul fails him, “believing the vengeance coming to him is for his impieties” (Antiphon 5).

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

If we had any sense or feeling of these things, surely we should not go on as we do, in such irregular courses, practise all manner of impieties; our whole carriage would not be so averse from God.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

There is hardly a single philosophical or theological book in which heresies and impieties may not be found by misinterpreting, or adding to, or subtracting from, the sense.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Of those four members of religion we hold a slender proportion. 38 There are, I confess, some new additions; yet small to those which accrue to our adversaries; and those only drawn from the revolt of pagans; men but of negative impieties; and such as deny Christ, but because they never heard of him.

Religio Medici 2007

There you find those sublime impieties, those admirable lines against Providence and the immortality of the soul, which pass from mouth to mouth, through all after-ages:

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

“The court declares the accused duly attainted and convicted of superstitions, impieties, sacrileges, profanations, and poisonings.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The life, therefore, and spirit of all our actions is the resurrection, and a stable apprehension that our ashes shall enjoy the fruit of our pious endeavours; without this, all religion is a fallacy, and those impieties of Lucian, Euripides, and Julian, are no blasphemies, but subtile verities; and atheists have been the only philosophers.

Religio Medici 2007

They are told by them that the highest right is might, and in this way the young fall into impieties, under the idea that the Gods are not such as the law bids them imagine; and hence arise factions, these philosophers inviting them to lead a true life according to nature, that is, to live in real dominion over others, and not in legal subjection to them.

Laws 2006