Pagan

//ˈpeɪɡən//

"Pagan" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Her mother was a Christian and her father a pagan, but this wasn't a problem for them at all.

We write this in honor of Saint Patrick, who is credited with bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to one of the most pagan cultures of his day.

Saint Patrick lived and preached this kind of love among a pagan, barbaric generation of Irishmen around the year 432 AD.

God told Israel not to even mention the name of pagan gods, but the church has a celebration that is named after a pagan god.

Easter is a pagan holiday.

Many Christian rituals have pagan origins.

The pagan nations of antiquity always had a tendency to worship the sun, under different names, as the giver of light and life. And their festivals in its honor took place near the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the sun in December begins its upward course, thrilling men with the first distant promise of spring.

Sami worshipped a pagan deity.

Many Christian rituals have pagan roots.

They're doing a pagan ritual in the backyard.

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Under Christianization, many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.

Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.

The way Green practices witchcraft defies stereotypes of broomstick-wielding, cauldron-toting, pointy-hatted witches. He doesn’t belong to a coven. He’s not Wiccan or pagan, religions that are rooted in witchcraft. He has a few cats, though they’re better suited for snuggling than serving as helpful familiars.

This community has a surprising number of pagans.

'I've always believed that one of the reasons she never named Pagan's father was to spare her a similar pain.' 'You don't know who he is?' 'No. And, at the risk of sounding like Candida, I'd give anything to find out.'

In 2012, author Pagan Kennedy was hired by The New York Times magazine to write a column titled “Who Made That?” She began to hunt the people down behind inventions like sliced bread, the 3-D printer, and lipstick.

Mrs Pagan was delivered of a posthumous child, and thereafter along with the infant (a girl), she brought a process of aliment against John Pagan, who was a hosier in Dumfries, and alleged to be wealthy,[…]

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