Heathenish

Sabbath, they inserted a clause for the taking down of maypoles, which they called a heathenish vanity. ❋ David Hume (1743)

Look back at the passage on the first page of this chapter: the Old Testament church both created and borrowed Gehenna, its idea of a hell, from its surrounding countries and so-called heathenish cultures. ❋ Carlton Pearson (2010)

Every - thing which recalled a heathenish idol-cult was re - jected, and the meaning of imago was limited mainly to painted images, which being flat and therefore not similar materially to what they represented, suggested only the shape of divine figures. ❋ JAN BIA��OSTOCKI (1968)

This practice of sitting up all night with the dying, H.W. justly enough condemns as "heathenish:" "The houses cannot hold them all, of course, and they sit round out-of-doors in the street, the younger ones often falling asleep on the ground, and then they 'hab fever.'" ❋ Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson (N/A)

Doctrine, and prefer to regard it as a "heathenish" teaching, still the fact remains that the careful and unprejudiced student will find indisputable evidence in the writings of the Early Christian Fathers pointing surely to the conclusion that the doctrine of Metempsychosis was believed and taught in the Inner Circle of the Early Church. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

No one listens now to the precipitate ignorance which would set aside as "heathenish" the high civilization of this great race; but justice is not yet done to their past development and present capacities. ❋ Kalidasa (1866)

_ Pray thee, Doralice, why do we quarrel thus a-days? ha! this is but a kind of heathenish life, and does not answer the ends of marriage. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

The writer calls booing a "silly custom" that is "heathenish," and then makes a plea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Massachusetts spurned "heathenish" practices to such a degree that it stopped using names for the days of the week, referring to them only by numbers. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

It was essential for the candidate to be completely immersed so that s/he might be truly cleansed of heathenish worship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Henry David Thoreau, who in the mid-1800s wrote of living simply and in harmony with nature in Walden, was variously described by critics as “unmanly,”17 “very wicked and heathenish.”18 and an “unsocial being, a troglodyte of sorts.” ❋ Annie Leonard (2010)

I also thought that his later about-face with his declaration of love was completely predictable if not borderline heathenish. ❋ Donna (2010)

Namely, it appears as though Paul borrowed in bulk from the writings of Epicurus, a historically maligned Greek philosopher (much of that maligning came from later Christians seeking to cover-up the heathenish connection) who emerged during the rise of Alexander in the 4th Century B.C. ❋ Unknown (2010)