| 单词 | polytheist |
| 例句 | “As a Hindu, I’m a polytheist, as you well know.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Whether you’re a monotheist or a polytheist or no theist at all, it will speak to you, and you might answer back, dancing and clapping and lifting your own voice. Review: Nature and Song Bring Electricity to ‘Gospel at Colonus’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z About 1.5% of the American population identifies as “other faiths,” including “Unitarians, those who identify with Native American religions, Pagans, Wiccans, New Agers, deists, Scientologists, pantheists, polytheists, Satanists and Druids, to name just a few.” Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z The Arabs were polytheists — they worshiped a variety of gods linked to various oases in the desert. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z They were, however, polytheists, which the Muslims were unwilling to tolerate. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Shipwrecked on the Eritrean coast, Frumentius was brought to the royal court and in the role of tutor converted King Ezana, then a devout polytheist. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Unlike the other groups around them, who were polytheists, the Hebrews were monotheists. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An IS statement issued late Friday described Satnam Singh, 45, as “polytheist” and said he was shot dead by IS members. IS claims responsibility for gunning down Sikh in Pakistan 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The texts still contained a story about “Jewish wrongdoers” who are described as monkeys and say that “hellfire for all eternity” awaits polytheists who do no repent, the review found. In Saudi Arabia, Quiet Changes May Ease Tensions With Biden 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The Arabs were polytheists – they worshiped a variety of gods linked to various oases in the desert. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z From early in his reign, however, he sent out a carefully balanced message aimed to please Christians and traditional polytheists alike. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “They call us as infidels and polytheists, God forbid. And we consider them … expelled from Islam,” Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in an interview. Clashing assessments of links between Taliban and Islamic State point to problems for Afghanistan’s peace process 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Marcus singled out county officials who testified they would bar prayers from deists, Wiccans, Rastafarians and polytheists, and would have to think “long and hard” before inviting Hindus, Sikhs or followers of Native-American religions. Florida county cannot ban invocations by atheists: U.S. appeals court 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The IS statement said the attack’s “aim was to spoil the ritual of the polytheists.” Islamic State group claims Kabul attack on Shiite shrine 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z But to the Islamic State, which quickly claimed credit for the attack, they were something else: Mushrikin, an Arabic word meaning polytheists. To the World, They Are Muslims. To ISIS, Sufis Are Heretics. 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Any vision for a renewed polytheist empire ended with his death. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “You are today a knife in the backs of the polytheists, so roll up your sleeves.” ISIS Officially Taunts Trump, Ending a Conspicuous Silence 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The slickly produced five-minute video opens with a Koranic verse on idol worship, before a narrator rails against polytheists and heretics, and the rampage begins. Why Islamic State wants to destroy the treasures of the ancient world 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Islamic State and other Sunni radical groups see Shiites as polytheists and apostates. At Least 24 Dead in Islamic State Bombings in Baghdad 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In a statement circulated on social media, the Islamic State said it targeted pilgrims on the way to their “polytheist ritual.” Islamic State targets Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, but detonates truck bomb in a market instead 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Like the people of Mesopotamia, Ancient Egyptians were polytheists and worshipped many deities who controlled the forces of nature. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The statement said “soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh” were able to detonate explosives in a temple of “polytheists in the city of Dhaka, during the holding of their polytheist rituals.” ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack in Bangladesh 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The hard-line Sunni group said that "soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh" detonated explosives in a temple of "polytheists in the city of Dhaka, during the holding of their polytheist rituals." Bombs rip through Shiite procession in Bangladesh's capital, killing 1, injuring more than 100 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “With the approval of God Almighty, the soldier of the caliphate Shuja al-Dawsari, may God accept him, set his Kalashnikov upon one of the apostate polytheists’ temples.” Isis gunman kills five in Saudi Arabia before being killed by police 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Barber, of the University of Chicago, said that the focus on Yazidis was likely because they are polytheists, with an oral tradition rather than a written scripture. ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Sumerians were polytheists, people who revered many gods. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Islamic State says that because Yazidis are polytheists, they deserve brutal treatment. Islamic State seizes two Yazidi villages as it advances on Mount Sinjar "I think I'm a polytheist, in as much as I believe in multiple divinities." Julian Cope interview: 'I live in a visionary state … I'm a wild beast' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z For animists and polytheists, the natural world is full of spirits. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z “They insult villagers by calling them pagans and ‘polytheist Muslims,’” says a Taliban commander in Ghazni province. To Unfriend Al Qaeda 2012-08-13T05:00:00Z In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The average Christian, whatever he may say to the contrary, is, theoretically speaking, a materialist, and, I might add, a polytheist. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z No doubt, on the other hand, his knowledge of God reacts upon the entire contents of his mind and saves him from presenting such accounts of creation as have been common among polytheists. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z They believe in a future life, and are polytheists. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z But it was the same religious sentiment, in both monotheist and polytheist, that prompted the rendering of prayer, sacrifice, and other service. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Arabian polytheists worshipped idols and totems, physical representations of divine spirits. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They recognise no supreme God, and no intelligent Creator; and they cannot be called polytheists, for indeed they are not worshippers of any power—taking the word in its full meaning. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z But the polytheists, thus violently Christianized against their will, remained pagan in essence, and they escaped, as by a miracle, from the furies of the Gospel and the Koran. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Aaron Brody, director of the Bade Museum and an associate professor of Bible and archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, says the ancient Israelites were polytheists, with only a “small majority” worshipping God alone. Was God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible? 2011-03-22T17:00:40Z The stoic, the platonist, and the epicurean, the polytheist, the dualist, and the trinitarian differ entirely in their conceptions of its meaning. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Yet it ought not to be forgotten that these exalted views of the philosophers were not shared at all by the common people, and that even the philosophers themselves were for the most part polytheists. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z This has led some persons to define these objects as the principal divinities of the Ainu, and to call the people themselves polytheists. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Dogmatism is a religion's profession of its own reality as contrasted with other systems; but polytheists are liberals, and hold that one religion is as good as another. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z O God! destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion! How to Observe Morals and Manners Both on his cylinder and in the annalistic tablet Cyrus, hitherto supposed to be a Persian and a Zoroastrian monotheist, appears as an Elamite and as a polytheist. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments For a long time He did not believe it Himself; in the beginning He was a polytheist; later, His pride and the flattery of His worshippers made Him a monotheist. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels These distinguished polytheists never made a secret of their religious opinions, but publicly declared them on several occasions. A Treatise on Relics The uncompromising and inexorable spirit animating them brought on necessarily a triple alliance of the statesmen, the philosophers, and the polytheists. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Instead of breaking free from it, they pretended that their opponents were polytheists. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It is clear, therefore, that Cyrus was a polytheist, who, like other polytheists in other ages, adopted the gods of the country he had conquered from motives of State policy. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The Jews at the time of Josiah were accomplished polytheists, as we may see from the catalogue of the worships suppressed at Jerusalem by that monarch, 2 Kings xxiii. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Once or twice, indeed, it seems to cross him that there was such a people as the Hebrews, and that they were not the polytheists they ought to have been. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It reproves the rebellion of those who would worship the creature instead of the Creator, and is directed alike against the polytheist and him who, worshipping himself, says,—"no God." The Ordinance of Covenanting The apostle of Christianity might justifiably speak to polytheists of the God 'whom ye ignorantly worship.' The Idea of God in Early Religions Next to the fact that he was a polytheist, the most startling revelation they make is that he was not a king of Persia at all. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments It is evident from a study of these formulas that the Cherokee Indian was a polytheist and that the spirit world was to him only a shadowy counterpart of this. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 The heathen polytheists are therefore justly condemned in Scripture, and pronounced to be "inexcusable." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The Hebrews, originally polytheists and idolators, reclaimed by their leaders to Monotheism.—§ Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria In their writings we have the reflections of polytheists upon the actions and attributes of the gods. The Idea of God in Early Religions Cyrus, we know now upon his own authority, was a polytheist, and not a Zoroastrian; he was king of Elam, not of Persia. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The natives, at that time, had no religion at all, or were, in a vague sense, polytheists. The Philippine Islands We are polytheists, worshipping the ancient gods of our fathers, or we are Augustans, worshipping the divinity of our lord Emperor. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The later Hebrews themselves kept a clear remembrance of their ancestors having been heathen polytheists, and their own historians, writing more than a thousand years after Abraham's times, distinctly state the fact. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Even to polytheists, the god who is worshipped at the moment, is, at that moment, one than whom there is no one, and nought, greater, quo nihil maius. The Idea of God in Early Religions Those legists who held that the polytheists and idolaters may either be fought against or be submitted to the authority of Islam by being tributaries, took the word in its proper sense of submission. A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 "Lucretius built a system for himself in his poem ... it has a professed practical aim—to explain the world's self-acting machine to the polytheist, and to disabuse him of all spiritual ideas." The Faith of Islam A Muhammadan cannot marry a polytheist, but he may marry a Jewess or a Christian. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Continuing his researches, the Martian notices a number of passages in the Old Testament that lead him to the conclusion that the Hebrews were originally polytheists. The Necessity of Atheism Doubtless, this is due in part to the fact that the idea of God was so imperfectly disclosed to the polytheists of Mexico and Greece. The Idea of God in Early Religions The cultivated polytheists did not like the idea of a monotonous theology of one solitary God. The Agony of the Church (1917) Likewise He says: “Blessed is the servant or maid-servant who believes, and woe to the polytheists who have violated the Covenant of God and His Testament, and deviated from My Right Path.” Bahá’í World Faith While one must agree with Hume, then, it is, nevertheless, to be wished that he had not set the bad example of calling polytheists "superstitious atheists." Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Then the polytheists‡ likewise chose their man, one held among them in the highest esteem, well read and wise, a monk of monks. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond The early part of the Bible shows very plain traces of the fact that the Jews were polytheists and nature-worshippers. Our Unitarian Gospel The philosophers spoke of a dim Supreme far off from men, and even the polytheists were not unwilling to subordinate their motley crew of gods to some mysterious divinity beyond them all. The Arian Controversy Both among fetish-worshippers and polytheists there was a tendency towards monotheism, although sometimes it could only be discerned in a vague and confused manner. Myth and Science An Essay S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion, that He may make it overcome the religions, all of them, though the polytheists may be averse. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Today it is only too easy to obey one motive in the home and another in one's business, to follow one principle in private life and another in national life, and to be polytheists again. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Well! but the honorable gentleman will recollect that heathens, that polytheists, must permit a number of divinities. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) They follow, so far as modern circumstances permit, the ancient ritual and are apparent polytheists while accepting pantheism as the higher truth. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 That they were a philosophic priesthood advocating a pure religion among polytheists is a baseless theory. The Religion of the Ancient Celts S: Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; they are the worst of men. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side A few earnest men may preach deism; the people will remain polytheists and pantheists for many generations. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow In religion they were polytheists; they believed that, in the work of Creation, many Powers participated; that some of these Powers were benevolent, some malevolent, whilst others—neither benevolent nor malevolent—were merely neutral. The Sorcery Club Most Hindus are apparently polytheists, that is to say they venerate the images of several deities or spirits, yet most are monotheists in the sense that they address their worship to one god. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 A rough classification of the theological belief of the Hindus of the present day would be—the multitude are polytheists; the new-educated are monotheists; the brahmanically educated are professed pantheists. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments S: Say: This is my way: I call to Allah, I and those who follow me being certain, and glory be to Allah, and I am not one of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side It has become a real word for a very real state of mind, conscious of many possibilities beyond that of the atheist, and not excluding that of the polytheist. The New Jerusalem The majority of mankind are idolaters and polytheists, and have been for thousands of years. Sermons to the Natural Man As in these maladies the patient may be subject to hallucinations, it was natural that savages or ignorant men, or polytheists, or ardent Catholics, or excitable Covenanters, should regard these hallucinations as ‘lucid’ or ‘clairvoyant’. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The pantheists are thus no separate sect from the theists, any more than the theists are from the polytheists. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments S: Then We revealed to you: Follow the faith of Ibrahim, the upright one, and he was not of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side But as we are now among polytheists it may be argued that, given a crowd of gods on the animistic model, an origin had to be found for them, and that origin was Taa-roa. The Making of Religion In the eyes of an inquisitive polytheist, it must appear worthy of the human and the divine nature. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Now, pantheistic in argument and polytheistic in domestic practices as educated Hindus still are, they never call themselves pantheists, and would resent being called polytheists; they call themselves theists. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Abraham was a nation obedient to Allah, by nature upright, and he was not of the idolaters; S: Surely Ibrahim was an exemplar, obedient to Allah, upright, and he was not of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side The only people who attained to toleration in the ancient world were the polytheists. The Psychology of Revolution The polytheists were confounded by the simple idea of a solitary and invisible God; the pride of the Christians and Jews disdained the yoke of a mortal and contemporary legislator. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Yet, at the same time, in the true spirit of a polytheist, he accuseth them of adoring Earth, Water, Fire, the Winds, and the Sun and Moon. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Cyrus's belief in Jehovah illustrates the attitude which was natural to a polytheist, and is so difficult for us to enter into. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes S: Say: Travel in the land, then see how was the end of those before; most of them were polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side On a previous occasion also the Mahomedans had incurred disfavour, owing to the ill-will of certain Christians, who quoted to Kúblái a text of the Koran enjoining the killing of polytheists. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The sun, among all the ancient polytheists, was worshipped under various names, and was one of the supremest deities. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets The doctrine of a future state was scarcely considered among the devout polytheists of Greece and Rome as a fundamental article of faith. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Like other polytheists, he had room in his pantheon for the gods of other nations, and admitted into it the deities of the conquered peoples. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes S: Say: Allah has spoken the truth, therefore follow the religion of Ibrahim, the upright one; and he was not one of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side No, Goethe is not the poet of Pantheism; he is a polytheist in his method as an artist; the pagan poet of modern times. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian But it will be said the Jews, who were monotheist, were conquered by the Romans, who were polytheist. Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society This first fact certainly places the Irish in a position, with regard to idolatry, far different from that of all other polytheist nations. Irish Race in the Past and the Present Say: I am commanded to be the first who submits himself, and you should not be of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side S: Then their excuse would be nothing but that they would say: By Allah, our Lord, we were not polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side S: Surely I have turned myself, being upright, wholly to Him Who originated the heavens and the earth, and I am not of the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side S: Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god but He; and withdraw from the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side S: Therefore declare openly what you are bidden and turn aside from the polytheists. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side |
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