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  • verb Present participle of Christianize.

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Examples

  • A hundred years ago my great grandfather Walter Rauschenbusch wrote a book called Christianizing the Social Order which called for the reorganization of society that reflected the economic and social justice preached by Jesus in the Gospel with a special emphasis on the needs and concerns of the working poor being crushed by the industrial revolution.

    Paul Raushenbush: Christianizing the Health Care Debate 2009

  • Christian Masons the idea of Christianizing the ancient symbol.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Or of the slave aristocracy of eastern Texas in anything but a fawning and praising manner for, as some apologists of the time believed, 'Christianizing' and 'saving' the Africans brought over in slave ships or bought and sold like cattle on town squares across the South.

    Robert Mackey: Misremembering: The Failure to Teach History in America Robert Mackey 2010

  • God instructs President McKinley to invade Cuba and seize the Philippines from Spain; turning from liberators to occupiers, U.S. troops slaughter and starve the (Roman Catholic) Filipinos in the name of 'Christianizing' them.

    Richard Belzer: The Death of Conservatism, Part 3 2008

  • "Christianizing" the "heathen" Native Americans and the Filipino "savages" provided a rationalization for annihilating millions of human beings.

    The Rendition of Christ: 2006

  • Their first step in "Christianizing" the Rapanuians was to burn the wooden tablets covered with

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

  • There's nothing Trinitarian about the abolishing of religious freedom under the auspices of "Christianizing" the State by means of "socializing" it (see contemporary Western Europe and its spiritual nihilism on this point - the Christian Democrats got it all wrong).

    Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex 2008

  • There's nothing Trinitarian about the abolishing of religious freedom under the auspices of "Christianizing" the State by means of "socializing" it (see contemporary Western Europe and its spiritual nihilism on this point - the Christian Democrats got it all wrong).

    Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex 2008

  • People justify it by calling it innocent fun, or even go as far as "Christianizing" it by having a "Fall Harvest Festival" or dressing up kids in your favorite biblical character.

    Progressive Bloggers 2008

  • He said, We are talking about Christianizing America.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

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