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  • And you can strengthen these pagan's faith yourself.

    Atonement 2010

  • So there came down the pagan's sacred house of Ka'ba crashing onto the feet of Islam.

    The Falling World Trade Center Towers and Islam 2007

  • The Christian's desires, unlike the pagan's, “exceed the nature of man, the limits of this life, of this real sensuous world” (GW VI: 259; LER 231).

    Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Harvey, Van A. 2007

  • A late pagan's attitude towards his gods was often too casual to be described as ultimate in Tillich's sense and yet was surely religious.

    Concepts of God Wainwright, William 2006

  • In the pagan's dilemma, the Death/God ambiguity of The Skeptic again asserts itself; and Hemans's poem observes, "marvel not" if amidst such ambiguities man "sought to trace" in "rushing winds" "The oracles of Fate!"

    Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

  • The Carnal Doctrine of Satanism during the Middle Ages (actually an instinctive response) was a detour, the pagan's healthy reaction to christian repression.

    The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #8 1991

  • It came like the answer to a pagan's prayer, along with a dun from some tailor or other, an anti-popish tract, a demand for my club subscription, and an invitation to buy railway shares -- all the usual trash.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • 'Kebuk,' for this is the pagan's name, was very glad to see us, a large fire was quickly made, snow melted, pork fried, and soon the

    Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

  • On the opposite shore we saw the pagan's daughter fishing for pike with hook and line under the ice.

    Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

  • "It's a hopeless task to look for a pagan's backbone," said he.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

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