It would have been too much to have expected the Israelites to leap from pagan worship to prayer and meditation in one step.

He re-instituted pagan worship and reversed the religious reforms made by his father Hezekiah; for which he is condemned by several religious texts.

The religion faced obstacles as it spread through the inland population because pagan worship was strong.

To a God Unknown follows the life of a homesteader and his family in California, depicting a character with a primal and pagan worship of the land he works.

In 392 Theodosius passed legislation prohibiting all pagan cultic worship.

Meanwhile, like Socrates, who, freed from demonic deception, "tried to deliver people from the demons,"57 Christians maintain the truth of their freedom by repudiating pagan worship.

Having repudiated the patronage of the traditional gods some two generations earlier, the emperors now sometimes used military force to help stamp out pagan worship.

Mainline Protestants talk of Jesus as the Redeemer of all beings and evangelical Protestants take special pains to disassociate themselves from New Age or pagan worship.

Paganism was tolerated for another 12 years, until 392, when Theodosius passed legislation prohibiting all pagan cultic worship.

In 391 Theodosius closed all of the pagan (non-Christian and non-Jewish) temples and formally forbade pagan worship.