Pagan Gods Quotes

• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

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  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian   Fall   Fighting  

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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  Lord Byron

  Inspirational   Life   Religion  

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• We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

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  Annie Dillard

  Mind   Stones   Watches  

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

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  Camille Paglia

  Dream   Sex   Gay  

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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• I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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  Lord Byron

  Doubt   Paganism   Deny  

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• Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

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  Rose Wilder Lane

  Fighting   Men   Space  

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• Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

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  Guy Consolmagno

  Mean   Intelligent   America  

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• Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

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  Subhash Kak

  Europe   Pagan   Pagan Gods  

  "The Loom of Time: On the Recursive Nature of Reality". Book by Subhash Kak, 2016.

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