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Recent Examples of paganism
Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.
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Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
But while the prosecution is arguing that Allen kidnapped and murdered the girls, hiding them in the woods to cover his tracks, Allen’s defense claims that the girls were ritually murdered as a part of a practice of Norse paganism called Odinism.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
Delphi Suspect Claims White Nationalist Pagans Killed 2 Teens — Despite Allegedly Confessing to Wife
Allen’s attorneys have since argued that the girls were murdered by Odinists, who practice a form of Norse paganism and are linked to White nationalism.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
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Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
But while the prosecution is arguing that Allen kidnapped and murdered the girls, hiding them in the woods to cover his tracks, Allen’s defense claims that the girls were ritually murdered as a part of a practice of Norse paganism called Odinism.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
Delphi Suspect Claims White Nationalist Pagans Killed 2 Teens — Despite Allegedly Confessing to Wife
Allen’s attorneys have since argued that the girls were murdered by Odinists, who practice a form of Norse paganism and are linked to White nationalism.
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paganism
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Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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Vance invoked Catholic theology (erroneously, according to Pope Francis) to justify a hierarchy of concern that places caring for U.S. citizens ahead of the rest of the world.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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In 1975, Elijah Muhammad’s son, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, or W.D. Mohammed, took over the Nation of Islam and transitioned the theology to be based on the Quran and sunnah, Islamic customs and practices based on the words and deeds of the seventh century Prophet Muhammad.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2024
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.—
Jennifer Welsh,
Discover Magazine,
23 Nov. 2010
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Following a judicial doctrine established by the 1971 case Mindes v. Seaman, courts typically defer to the judgment of military authorities in determining how the armed forces should function.—
Natalie Shibley / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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The state of Michigan wants to shut down the pipeline, saying that a 1953 easement for the pipeline’s operation violated the state’s public trust doctrine.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2021
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But should authorities banish all religious beliefs that differ with the state’s secular dogma?—
Dan Miller,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The central dogma in molecular biology is a very beautiful thing.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Quanta Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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