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The songs molded a claustrophobic, atmospheric universe out of blast beats, buzz-saw guitars and strangled shrieking, with misanthropic lyrics that explored bleakness, despair, paganism and coldness (both metaphorical and literal).—
Elisabeth Vincentelli,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025 -
Raphael envisioned his design as a series of murals depicting the triumph of Christianity over paganism: The Vision of the Cross, The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, The Baptism of Constantine and The Donation of Rome.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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The 24 books comprising the entire Hebrew Bible cover a wide range of topics in history, law, poetry, wisdom, and theology.—
Jonathan I. Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Scientists have told us that theology and science don’t belong together, and that only science has the authority to make truth claims about reality.—
Gregory J Rummo,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Aug. 2025
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For instance, according to Alawite beliefs, Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is a divine manifestation of God, which challenges the idea of strict monotheism central to Sunni Islam.—
Güneş Murat Tezcür,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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This change comes after the U.S. Supreme Court’s blockbuster 2024 decision overturning the Chevron doctrine, which for 50 years had often bound federal courts to defer to the executive branch for interpretation of U.S. law.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The ruling is part of a broader conservative legal agenda that’s been years in the making—one that took a major leap forward when the court overturned the Chevron doctrine last year.—
Monifa Bandele,
Essence,
29 July 2025
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