William Hague put the fear of God into foreign diplomats and visitors at the invitation-only international reception in Brum.
They were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues, miraculously praising God in foreign languages.
Pagan religion was very tolerant: the gods of foreign traditions were accepted as long as they were added to the gods worshipped locally.
The very concept of an asexual "mother of God" is alien and foreign to Jewish culture and to the Hebrew Bible.
By the height of the Empire, numerous cults of pseudo-foreign gods (Roman reinventions of foreign gods) were cultivated at Rome and in the provinces, among them cults of Cybele, Isis, Epona, and of solar gods such as Mithras and Sol Invictus, found as far north as Roman Britain.
The gods in Okey Ndibe's second novel, Foreign Gods Inc. are playthings for the rich and the famous.
That few Pondicherry natives now spoke French in public, or adopted Escoffier as their own personal kitchen god, or approached foreign tourists as equals, seemed natural, particularly since, as Saroja Sundararajan wrote in "Pondicherry: A Profile," the colony's native population was once "one of the most exploited in the world".
They are foreign, God bless them, the English.
"We hung up our harps on the trees and wept, for how can we sing a song of God in a foreign land?" the Psalms lament.
Maya kings are depicted as warriors wearing costume from the Mexican highlands, including elements such as the foreign god Tlaloc and the Teotihacan serpent.
Gruels' Foreign Gods Incorporated is "the world's oldest god shop".
