Sentence examples for heathen practice from inspiring English sources

It's a fascinatingly heathen practice.

Every spring break, hundreds if not thousands of churches load up vans and shuttle their youth groups to Mexico to build churches, play soccer with kids, and ultimately try to convince them that Christianity is better than whatever heathen devilry they're practicing (generally Catholicism).

Davidson further links folk customs recorded in the 19th century involving ploughs in Northern and Eastern Europe to practices involving Gefjon from the heathen period.

Because of the viaticum's presumed pre-Christian origin, an anti-Catholic historian of religion at the turn of the 18th 19th centuries propagandized the practice, stating that "it was from the heathens [that] the papists borrowed it".

"There is nothing remarkable in cherishing merely our own people with the due attentions of love, but that one might become perfect who should do something more than heathen men or publicans, one who, overcoming evil with good, and practicing a merciful kindness like that of God, should love his enemies as well...Thus the good was done to all men, not merely to the household of faith".

Here are some of his thoughts: "The last thing we need is fundraisers from the north parachuting into southern countries trying to convert 'the heathen' to best fundraising practice.

As a late-19th century historian would smugly conclude, the Saginaw's extensive cannonade was meant to "give the 'heathen Chinese' [sic] some idea of her target practice".

"Heathen" fulfils this ambition.

HEATHEN VALLEY, by Romulus Linney.

It is from ethnikos … heathen".

mustard was a heathen spice . . .