But in her worshipping God, they are all worshipping Aretha.
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Whenever he's not worshipping his own false idol, or worshipping his fleshy human-robot corpus (hard to tell the statue from the real man, TBH), he's scoring goals.
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"Worshipping at the altar of Bayreuth was enough," and the
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As with any religion, worshipping together brings so much peace.
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We invent new gods and cajole each other into worshipping.
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Turns out that Beyoncé Mass is not about worshipping Mrs.
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Jennifer Lopez may have her own track worshipping the derriere.
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"I was extremely worshipping of Trump," Kazan told BuzzFeed News.
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They could stop worshipping at the altar of free speech.
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It's worshipping, and it's not something I like at all.
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Kerri Rawson grew up worshipping her doting, protective father, Dennis Rader.
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No Hindu will say he or she is worshipping an idol.
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The heavy-metal giants of the 1980s grew up worshipping them.
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Everybody who comes up to you is suspect to worshipping you.
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The Christians at Sutherland Springs and Charleston were worshipping in church.
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They spoke like Saint Francis in public while privately worshipping Mammon.
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The Mirage, however, isn't just a party spot for sun-worshipping ravers.
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"A mentally colonized white worshipping bed wench sell-out," someone else said.
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About 50 people were worshipping at the church when the gunman entered.
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Perhaps a certain crazy murderous king of Cthulhu-worshipping Vikings, Euron Greyjoy?
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Does worshipping at a creative altar just mean finding new ways to win?
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OKRs were an elastic, data-driven apparatus for a freewheeling, data-worshipping enterprise.
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To outsiders it may seem as though Santa Muerte devotees are worshipping death.
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When its heroes get self-righteous, it pokes them instead of worshipping them.
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I think that element of worshipping is ultimate love— it's adoration, it's appreciation.
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As an orchestra plays Wagner, the women fall to worshipping a giant phallus.
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In the late 19th century, Jews returned to the city and resumed worshipping there.
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Presumably they will want to continue worshipping even after the last Shaker is gone.
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Those three tell King Nebuchadnezzar that he is doomed for worshipping a false idol.
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Anyone running an enterprise business is worshipping at the feet of Amazon Web Services.
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It's no longer cool to be seen worshipping at the feet of star managers.
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"Honestly, it appeared as if he was actively praying or worshipping," one officer reported.
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Are we simply a culture of Kylo Rens, forever worshipping this long-dead grandfather?
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Christianity was banned in Japan at the time but many Catholics continued worshipping underground.
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The queen is frequently shown worshipping Aten alone, making offerings in female-only temples.
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The roles brought him attention, but the idea of hero-worshipping Manson sickens him.
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Both were brash, outspoken, greenback worshipping, tabloid icons obsessed with building taller, shinier skyscrapers.
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The sooner people accept that index is not divine, the sooner they'll stop worshipping it.
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"He can't stop us from worshipping him," interjected Castillo, who was also on the call.
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We started worshipping things that are empty and false, and, you know, here we are.
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"Beyonce is the most inspiring person I've ever had the pleasure of worshipping," she continued.
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I wonder: If Sidney died, would all the people in her life stop worshipping her?
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These days, the water no longer sparkles like the eyes of a deity worth worshipping.
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There are others as well, such as the sun-worshipping Carja or the Oseram tinkerers.
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Justin was leaving the Saban Theater, where he'd been worshipping at a City Church event.
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His radicalisation was his own work, accelerated by worshipping at a mosque favoured by extremists.
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By mummifying them and worshipping these animals in sacred temples, the Egyptians honored their deities.
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Memo to those who are still worshipping at the altar of St. Marcel: It's over.
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Antiochus aimed to plant Hellenic culture throughout his kingdom, and that included worshipping its gods.
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For them, there are rituals and practices, but they're not about worshipping some being called Satan.
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Maybe. Travis Scott and other rock-worshipping rappers would certainly like that comparison to be made.
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The gritty details: Uber's hyper-growth came at the cost of "worshipping top performers," Huffington said.
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Or maybe not any sweeter than you'd expect, considering these are words from wife-worshipping Legend.
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As a result, Steam is filled with hate groups and groups dedicated to worshipping school shooters.
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DO NOT GO BACK TO LIVING WHILE WORSHIPPING FALSE IDOLS in which I warned you about!
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Let's assume it's not from worshipping the Holy Father into the wee hours of the morning.
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Traditionally, Sattriya — which was developed within the Krishna-worshipping, all-male monasteries of Assam — excluded them.
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READ: We Spent a Weekend with the Gun-Worshipping Moonie Church That's Trying to Go MAGA.
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The band's Hawkwind-worshipping, Stooges-referencing debut, Black Magic Boogieland, is out now on TeePee Records.
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"The power and the dynamics and the worshipping," he said, are tenets of both Judaism and BDSM.
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From the 2018 perspective—and in light of the #MeToo movement—worshipping dicks might seem somewhat antiquated.
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That's the act of Ghost: they're like a Satan-worshipping band, but they don't take it seriously.
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Most recently he starred as Kai Anderson, a misogynistic, Manson-worshipping psychopath, during season 7's Cult.
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Technical Boy believes that prayers are obsolete and that worshipping a deity has given way to obsession.
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You are worshipping at the house of Amazon, and Prime is your exclusive key in the door.
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Trump is shitting on the country; his minions are worshipping his ass — Birk's points are clearly made.
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Lagos insists on one parking space for every 40 square metres of "worshipping area" in a church.
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By some counts, 20143 archaeological sites show evidence for the worshipping of the god and his cosmos.
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He's very into worshipping feet, so if he pleases me maybe I'll let him massage my feet.
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Empaths have a lot of compassion and understanding to give, while narcissists thrive on someone worshipping them.
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The police will smell their breath, notice their inebriation, and believe that they're been carousing, not worshipping.
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And yet PragerU is a whisper in an online conservative din dominated by the Trump-worshipping Breitbart brigade.
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If you weren't already worshipping at the altar of Nicole Mary Kidman, Destroyer will make you a believer.
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Whether or not you're in charge of a team, be wary of worshipping at the altar of productivity.
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The wayward Israelites scattered at the sight of Gideon and his army, and returned to worshipping the Lord.
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You can find everything from accountants and bakeries to herbal medicine practitioners and shops selling ancestor-worshipping wares.
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For many worshipping groups in South Africa, such as Pentecostal churches, religious expression is closely tied to water.
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This bending of reality in one's favor is the type of Supreme Leader-worshipping propaganda disseminated in dictatorships.
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FAT-WORSHIPPING FUN The weeklong contest started in 2014 as a one-day event called Fat Bear Tuesday.
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FAT-WORSHIPPING FUN The weeklong contest started in 2014 as a one-day event called Fat Bear Tuesday.
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With politics feeling pretty bleak, people memed her as their crystal-clutching, moon-worshipping, chardonnay-sipping sorceress queen.
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You can bring digital interfacing and TV worshipping way the hell down without being a fundamentalist about it.
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A hashtag calling Comic Con a "devil worshipping" festival became popular on Twitter and some called for boycotting it.
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He had been participating in "mosque invasions" where he would ambush people worshipping and accuse them of sex slavery.
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It's a long overdue grappling with the reality that many Americans remain comfortable worshipping men who commit great evil.
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For some, worshipping a Christian god that has persistently been depicted as a white man simply doesn't sit well.
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In The Path of the Mother, Savitri L. Bess points out that Hindus have never stopped worshipping the Mother.
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Our favorite model for the Brawlers, however, are the über-stylish rockabilly-worshipping gangs of Paris in the 1980s.
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With so many bland Snow Whites out there, can you blame a girl for worshipping at the altar of Maleficent?
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As Westeros was invaded by various tribes — especially the Seven-worshipping Andals — weirwoods were chopped down at an increasing rate.
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In "Spies," we get an in-depth look at what exactly turned Huck into this kind of gore-worshipping monster.
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That a film about a Devil-worshipping killer still feels this fresh makes The Devil's Candy all the more impressive.
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Instead, the victims were mostly Christians worshipping in churches and tourists, including at least four from the US, in hotels.
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Why should I throw my life away, worshipping Bhagwan and serving not only him, but Sheela, Vidya, anybody and everybody?
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According to reports, the individuals called for the church's demolition, destroyed some of its contents, and assaulted those worshipping inside.
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The cult members' motivation for kidnapping and worshipping the Black Goat is their belief that they are helping the town.
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When women rise to prominence, misogyny often ensues, and by 1500 BC, Goddess-worshipping civilizations had mostly fallen from grace.
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But I am toying with the idea of worshipping the god of the Mexican volcano that caused that freak snowstorm.
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We should stop worshipping it and bending down to every Third World population that shows up with TB and leprosy.
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While worshipping in Saint Simon's Episcopal Church one day, he noticed that it sat on 4 acres of unused land.
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A FORESTED village in Jharkhand state, eastern India, Narotoli is home mainly to adherents of Sarna, a nature-worshipping tribal religion.
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From full-out devil worshipping to an Exorcist-inspired episode, this iteration will have plenty of horror elements pulsing through it.
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It's Carter's pride that has long insulated him from hero worshipping whomever happens to be the Democratic leader at that moment.
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Easter is one of Christianity's holiest days, and many Sri Lankan Christians were worshipping at church when the attacks took place.
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The truth is, by worshipping at the altar of Trump, Republicans haven't simply ensured conservative dominance of one branch of government.
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It is one of the world's largest constructions for worshipping God, and features separate altars for sacrifices to heaven and earth.
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The philistinism, the mediocrity, the worshipping of money for its own sake — this is exactly the opposite of what Nietzsche advocated.
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The Dalai Lama said in Geneva that it was his duty to explain why he had stopped worshipping the Dorje Shugden deity.
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After the pact, the First Men eventually abandoned their own gods, and began worshipping the Children's Old Gods and following their customs.
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It's also proof that even after the birth of Rumi and Sir Carter, we are not done worshipping Beyoncé's brilliant pregnancy announcement.
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Sure, there are sports professionals and broadcasters who have dedicated their whole lives to worshipping the pigskin and the "art" of football.
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More a celebration of the week in football than just hero worshipping one individual, here's your new-look column – with added variety.
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Some programs overpaid celebrities, destroying industry order and leading teenagers into worshipping stars and money, Xinhua news agency said, citing the administration.
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The community's foundational belief is that a race of sentient, devil-worshipping, shape-shifting reptiles from outer space has infiltrated human civilization.
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Authoritarians come in many kinds—theistic and military and bully-worshipping—but Morris was an unusual and modern thing, an aesthetic authoritarian.
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To honor the seven years defined by seven seasons following seven kingdoms worshipping seven gods, we've gathered seven of our favorite memes.
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John T. Earnest, 19, surrendered to police after bursting into the synagogue and opening fire as about 100 people were worshipping inside.
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While ancient Egyptians were well known for worshipping and mummifying animals, especially cats, mummified lions are extremely rare in the archaeological record.
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One is a family of "ant-worshipping" spiders that live in ant mounds -- although the reason for that remains to be seen.
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NBC News reports that Daoud Nabi, 71, was killed during Friday's attacks targeting Muslims worshipping at two Islamic centers in the city.
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If you chose "shit inside the hallowed grounds of an Incan worshipping room," congratulations: There's something deeply and irredeemably wrong with you.
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In a tense exchange, Booker pressed Pompeo on whether he believes that people worshipping "other gods" in America is a negative thing.
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Although Nick isn't worshipping the dark lord, her more sinister motives slowly emerge as show makes an unexpected switch from comedy to mystery.
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Like its trailer, the first song of Shah Rukh Khan's forthcoming film Fan captures the culture of celebrity worshipping Bollywood superstars in India.
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These guys were the real deal, appearing on stage in suit and tie while proudly claiming themselves to be devil-worshipping country gents.
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At the other end of the scale are tomes containing a plethora of pithy platitudes about "breaking the mould" and "worshipping the kill".
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There's no doubt that, a few singularity-worshipping cheerleaders aside, we are very, very far from creating anything that resembles a human mind.
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He is surrounded by a chaotic coterie of racists and oligarch-worshipping lobbyists who can't manage their way out of a paper bag.
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Vaporwave before kids started commenting "a e s t h e t i c" on every video on YouTube and worshipping Saint Pepsi.
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A few good friends and I were on the dancefloor as often as we were able, worshipping at the altar of the soundsystem.
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While I was raised nominally Christian, worshipping in the Methodist churches of rural Indiana, the occult has always been a part of me.
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The new series definitely has some fans, which we know from the (obviously fake) reviews on masculinity-worshipping sites like Return Of Kings.
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In addition, a black celebrity worshipping a raging bigot is nothing new -- simply revisit Sammy Davis Jr.'s history with President Richard Nixon.
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But many medieval illustrations show Pygmalion interacting with his ivory statue; the tale served as a kind of prurient religious warning against worshipping idols.
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Yet even in 2015, there were reports of mounting violence from Evangelical Christians against its practitioners, who stigmatize Candomblé as a devil-worshipping cult.
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The posters show two contrasting images of children worshipping their parents, and a young couple being punished by the police for celebrating Valentine's Day.
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The women who run the Markos Company are in fact full-on witches, worshipping ancient matriarchs that they communicate with through rituals, including dance.
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Cats have long been linked to spirituality, with Ancient Egyptians worshipping them for their sacred connection to Bastet, a goddess of protection and warfare.
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Booze is banned during the day, there are an endless amount of ancient temples to visit, and worshipping monks are never too far away.
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"[It's] a narrative music video focused on a delirious grassroots movement, guarding and worshipping a radioactive entity," Sørheim and Langdalen tell The Creators Project.
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It's Marshall Mathers, making a rare appearance to not incorrectly suggest that Stan stop worshipping him, get some therapy and treat his girlfriend better.
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Now that my carelessness is making itself known, I want a chance to undo some of the damage my rapacious sun worshipping has provoked.
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Without having to worry about worshipping at the altar of Windows, it can do all kinds of stuff it could never even consider before.
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I was just a crazy party kid who grew up worshipping Warhol and Hunter Thompson and Ken Kesey and wanted to live the life.
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KONNEY/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - Bussa Krishna first began worshipping Donald Trump four years ago when the U.S. president appeared to him a dream.
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Looking Glass isn't surprised that Judd has some connection to the Rorschach-worshipping Kavalry; Judd was "a white man in Oklahoma," Looking Glass says.
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Following his unceremonious firing from Uber, he's been keeping himself busy by founding a church based on the idea of worshipping a future AI deity.
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A sign of our times is a mission creep from civil rights activism to worshipping at the altar of Blue America's true religion, anti-racism.
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Musically, it's more of the (very welcome) same— Napalm Death- and Insect Warfare-worshipping razor-sharp riffs, punchy drumming, snotty screeches, massive breakdowns, and all.
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For example, Joseph Henry Sharp's 1934 "Penitentes," is, to the untrained eye, a representational image of members of the Brotherhood worshipping inside of a morada.
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Dallas, TX native Shaun Colón has spent the better part of his life worshipping the catalog of San Francisco-based punk label Fat Wreck Chords.
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Osborne allegedly drove a van into a group of Muslims outside the north London mosque after they had just finished worshipping at around 12.20 a.m.
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A gunman opened fire on Saturday, April 27 as dozens of people were worshipping exactly six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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Whether you're taking in every sticky, popsicle-stained second or just worshipping the miracle of air conditioning, summer is the perfect time for some you time.
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Hindus are encouraged to relate to God in the way that suits them best, like worshipping many deities who are believed to be manifestations of God.
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Denounced by the Catholic church as common heretical rogues, the head of a church cleansed of graven images and the caliph united against idol-worshipping Rome.
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Not only did it take place a few miles outside the normal conflict zone within north Sinai, its target was ordinary civilians worshipping at Friday prayers.
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I grew up worshipping at the altar of Cadbury, Hershey's, Nestlé, and whatever off-brand candy company made a chocolate version of Scooby Doo that year.
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So formidable are its rugged defences that it has defeated the many foes who for centuries have sought to stamp out the ancient peacock-worshipping sect.
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Growing up in Scotland, Kane would spend hours glued to the television, recording fashion broadcasts and worshipping Gianni Versace, whose style distinctly influenced his earliest collections.
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Having used Tilda Swinton in that movie, as the suavest of bloodsuckers, he redeploys her here as a Buddha-worshipping, sword-swiping mortician named Zelda Winston.
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It may sound like a lot of additional work, but the regularity of this practice makes worshipping and communing with God simply a fixture of everyday life.
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"A lot of the people who join our group are still worshipping in places that are oblivious to [racial tolerance] or are just willfully ignorant," Behrens said.
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If they want to use me as the evil lib scapegoat to scare their weird reactionary followers about my devious, Satan-worshipping ways, I'm fine with it.
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The Dakota pipeline is the easiest, most obvious place to start anew that we'll ever get—the perfect example of America's casual racism and endless money-worshipping.
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Just improbable victory after improbable victory, over and over, until the whole world is in thrall to peace and justice, worshipping at the altar of Steph Curry.
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The most popular image of the Satanic goat dates back to the ever-mysterious Knights of Templar, who were accused of worshipping an idol known as Baphomet.
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He believes some of the apprehension is due to confusion -- a perception that people of all faiths will be worshipping in the same sanctuary, shoulder to shoulder.
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Related: Sun-Worshipping Treehouse Combines Architecture with Nature "Eco Flamethrowers" Fire-Paint in Slow Motion Flaming Spiral GIFs Will Make You Want to Light Shit on Fire
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They are respectful and spiritual martial artists, and preferred to talk to us about their religion and finding the balance between worshipping God and competing in MMA.
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Privileging an artefact over the liberty of the human spirit is tantamount to worshipping false gods, to which the only riposte is an act of irreversible profanation.
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He has swaggered his way into English football, taken maximum points from his first six games and left us all worshipping at his feet in the process.
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Shincheonji's method of worshipping during these services could have contributed to the spread of the virus among its congregation, according to the Korea Center for Disease Control.
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The three of them went to Broadway and Off Broadway shows; watched TV together ("I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman," Eichner said); went to pop concerts.
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Most importantly, the exhibition has successfully steered clear of unduly inflating the importance of del Piombo, or presented another painter as an excuse for yet more Michelangelo worshipping.
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I, a feminist, raised in New York City by college worshipping parents who told me I could be anything when I grow up, aspired to be a housewife.
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Based on the comic series of the same name, The Chilling Adventures will dive harder into the Satan-worshipping (and human flesh–eating) element of Sabrina's dark powers.
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It was not so long ago that 33chan users were worshipping her as an "Aryan goddess" who was covertly redpilling America, claiming her as a secret white supremacist.
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But you know—a funny thing for me, with Chris talking about worshipping Judy Garland since he was five—Britney Spears was always my queen, since age 13.
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Monopoly lovers around the world are being asked to vote for their favourite Australian locations in order to win naming rights on the new, property-worshipping board game.
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I just want to cross borders and cross racial lines and cross spiritual lines and just get everybody on the same page, in the same room worshipping together.
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Also known as "sthenolagnia," muscle worship is a sexual paraphilia where a person becomes sexually aroused by touching and "worshipping" the muscles of a more physically dominant partner.
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They may not have grown up worshipping the same gods or speaking the same language at home, but worship of Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan knows no linguistic bounds.
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And long after his personal relationship to Wordsworth had soured, he remained enamored of his work, though he'd come to see the error of his hero-worshipping ways.
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About 60% of Russia's 144 million people consider themselves Orthodox Christians, but fewer were worshipping in churches on Sunday and some were wearing masks, according to media reports.
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"Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star Stevie J is suing his ex, Joseline Hernandez for her repeated accusations he molested his daughter, and is a devil-worshipping gay man.
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But if you're in a founder-worshipping culture where you have a narcissistic CEO who's never run anything before and is out of his depth, disaster will unfold.
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Victims also included a celebrity chef and her daughter, an American fifth grader, a British lawyer and her children, two Turkish engineers, and many who were worshipping at church.
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Just when you thought that the new season of American Horror Story would be entirely focused on bee-worshipping clowns, a love triangle is here to be your reprieve.
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An Instagram quote worshipping coffee demonstrates something more performative: that the poster is rising and grinding; they're hustling; they're putting their hair in a messy bun and handling it.
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The media has certainly played a role in normalizing gun violence and race relations, but this was true in literature and the press way before Americans started worshipping screens.
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Unfortunately, Hall gives all of these questions equal weight, which tends to undermine the book's loftier philosophical aspirations, as does the presence of ye olde Devil-worshipping sex cult.
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Yet a closer look at these screens reveals countless tiny scenes of ordinary people going about their lives: lighting lanterns, worshipping, smoking pipes, or simply talking in the streets.
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Unshakable resolve Despite their fears, American Muslims who spoke to CNN said they were determined to continue worshipping at mosques, and working to combat hate in all its forms.
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"I have been severally [sic] accused of practicing witchcraft, worshipping evil spirits, syncretism ... Nothing could be further from truth," Kadaga said in a statement sent to the Daily Monitor.
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Hating on fat people and worshipping unachievable body goals is nothing new to Western cultures, but it's a totally different ball game when it comes to east Asian families.
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Among Athens, Georgia's hodgepodge of frat rats from the University of Georgia, rednecks, and Jeff Mangum–worshipping musicians lies Nuçi's Space: a suicide-prevention center specializing in depression for musicians.
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Theranos' story is fascinating in the details of a Steve Jobs-worshipping scammer CEO and a toxic work environment, but also in its "big picture" perspective of Silicon Valley culture.
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"Fleabag" and the "Fleabag"-related hype is nevertheless interesting for sociological reasons: it demonstrates the annexation of yet another area of British life by the self-worshipping upper-middle classes.
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More puzzlingly, the Minister for Civil Affairs has proposed renaming "over-the-top, West-worshipping" place names like "Thames Town" near Shanghai, a cobbled recreation of an English market town.
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Netflix's take on the Archie comic is decidedly spookier, which becomes pretty clear with the chanting, the blood, the ceremonies, and the literal devil-worshipping that happen in the trailer.
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But you can fool your plebe-y diners into worshipping your delicacy of a dish when in actuality you whipped this thing up in far less than an hour's time.
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Nor do any of Woolf's characters strip bare and stand next to the lamp in the lighthouse, arms spread wide, bathing in the rays as if worshipping a luminescent god.
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Advocates for the bill say it would have prevented Dylann Roof from obtaining the gun that he used to kill nine people who were worshipping at Emanuel AME in 2015.
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Near the end of the episode, Zelda declared that the witches would now be part of the Order of Hecate, worshipping the "three-in-one" instead of the Dark Lord.
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The place is a front for the Eyeless—a criminal syndicate that might actually just be a cult worshipping a hidden trickster god—but that's not what makes Billie so angry.
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In Season 3, Episode 10, there was an especially controversial image of Khaleesi being lifted up in a large crowd of Yunkai people who were worshipping the woman who liberated them.
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"We don't want to reunite with our parents because they are not worshipping Allah, and I urge you to join us," she said, holding a rifle and speaking in the Hausa.
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Six months after Devin Patrick Kelley gunned down 26 people worshipping inside First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the state witnessed another deadly shooting — this time, at a high school.
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Black women are particularly susceptible to this because misogynoir — misogyny specifically directed at Black women — is rooted in a practice of worshipping and prioritizing Black men, even at our own expense.
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Watch: Stonehenge Stoners & Worshipping Wizards: 12 Hours at the World's Biggest Pagan Party "Sheela-na-Gig not a particularly old name, it's a name for two examples in Ireland," Harding explains.
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"Like so many others who grew up worshipping the craft and vision of Orson Welles, this is a dream come true," Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement.
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She told him that he didn't even know which God he was worshipping, and soon after that DeLonna was on the floor of your sister Christine's room, foaming at the mouth.
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As Rihanna moved toward her table, the speakers pumped "This Is What You Came For," her song with Calvin Harris, and the crowd turned into a Rihanna-worshipping, bubbly-sipping stampede.
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I think if they had known, they wouldn't have understood and would have thought I was worshipping Satan or something and probably would have tried to put a stop to it.
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While doing press for Goths, Darnielle has been reflecting quite a bit on his time worshipping the Sisters of Mercy and feeling like a boss in his totally buttoned-up Oxford.
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A: And it would also make me feel safe, because worshipping him in this sense is really, there is a lot of dynamics in the relationship, I hope I can explain.
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Lamar, a Yale School of Art dropout and self-described "NEGROGOTHIC devil worshipping free black man in the blues tradition," entered a pink, lilac smoke-filled stage in a campy costume.
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One week from the Christchurch terrorist attack, New Zealanders came together in a national day of reflection to remember those who died while worshipping inside 2 mosques in the South Island city.
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They have made the totally unproven theory that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels control earth temperatures into a mandatory nature-worshipping religion that to a small degree has replaced Christianity in the West.
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"I do not still practice as I am more of an agnostic now, but I do still love the idea of a religion worshipping nature and the elements as well as women."
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And this ultimate belief system is part of an occult system, because a lot of the future they want to build incorporates these ideas of worshipping pagan deities and ceremonial ritual magic.
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The bulk of Ranger's appeal lies in their ability to churn out pitch-perfect 80s-worshipping speed metal (piercing howls, shrieking leads, and all) without sounding stale, or derivative, or self-conscious.
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Soon, a rumor bubbled up on social media, accusing protesters of flowing into the mosque with their shoes on while drinking beer, both acts that would be considered disrespectful to anyone worshipping there.
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While Napalm Death was still playing Crass-worshipping punk, bassist G.C. Green and guitarist Paul Neville were combining programmed beats, electronic noise, and churning metal riffs in a band called Fall of Because.
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One group of fundraisers said they had been worshipping in basements for four years while trying to scrape together the money to build a mosque in another Paris suburb called Épinay-sur-Seine.
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Additionally, worshipping at shrines is considered idolatry under Saudi Arabia's austere official Wahhabi school of Islam and it is unclear which Islamic historical sites pilgrims might be lured to after years of neglect.
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Indonesia is a case in point: many local Muslims follow practices that would cause riots in Arabia, making offerings to saints and spirits, say, or worshipping at shrines shared with Hindus and Buddhists.
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Since Kat and Bianca's helicopter father won't let Bianca date unless Kat does, Cameron and his friend Michael (David Krumholtz) pay Patrick (Ledger) to "woo" the Feminist Mystique-worshipping, Sylvia Plath-quoting Kat.
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It's been nearly 60 years since Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, granted 673 acres of rural land to a newly burgeoning religion whose followers had begun worshipping him as a Messiah.
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It's been nearly 2000 years since Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, granted 215 acres of rural land to a newly burgeoning religion whose followers had begun worshipping him as a Messiah.
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I honestly can't believe I'm finally going to see Derketa—the original American goddesses of death—play live this weekend, after years of worshipping them from afar and covering their skull-crushing music.
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He believes that the good news is good news for everyone, and he is critical of a government that would seek to keep its people from freely worshipping whomever or whatever they wish.
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Despite drastically different statuses in the church, she and I were there at that desk, worshipping the same God, largely because of one man — a Mexican priest and massive church figurehead, Father Marcial Maciel.
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With their puritanical outlook and belief in going back to the basics of early Islam, Deobandis are deeply critical of Barelvi enthusiasm for such traditions as worshipping at the shrines of local Sufi saints.
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" This isn't to say that Souvannarath was a death worshipping neo-Nazi in her regular life—instead, in court documents, her family described her as someone who would "obey rules to a fault sometimes.
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" Pruitt cited a Bible verse from the Book of Joshua, in which Joshua led the people of Israel to the Promised Land, but asked them to choose between worshipping God or their "false gods.
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" Pruitt cited a Bible verse from the book of Joshua, in which Joshua led the people of Israel to the promised land but asked them to choose between worshipping God or their "false gods.
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The pug's portrayal of the main characters, beloved Barb and waffle-worshipping Eleven included, is pretty much pitch-perfect … there is just a little less panting in the original '80s horror/sci-fi homage series.
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In Quiapo, a teeming and rundown district of the capital, Manila, Christians and Muslims live peacefully alongside each other, worshipping at an ancient church and an imposing mosque that are just a few blocks apart.
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I've already said quite enough—let Lincoln Michel, writer, editor, and the author of Upright Beasts, take you on a far flung voyage to a planet where worshipping the wrong appendage can get you killed.
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The lower portion shows worshipping men and is installed as a plane inclined from floor to wall; the upper portion rises from mid-wall to the ceiling and presents a six-armed Sikan in ascension.
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In the show's third season, which was released on January 24, Sabrina Spellman has gone from being a reluctant half-witch to embracing who she is in all of her devil-worshipping, hell-traveling glory.
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All that went out the window in Season 2, episode 7, when a flashback to Castle Rock's past reveals a cult worshipping "the angel," who turns out to be none other than the Kid himself.
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Before the destruction of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, worshipping the God of Israel (also known as "Yahweh") was part of a conflation of ethnic and religious identity common in the ancient Near East.
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This bizarre Hamlet act — let's be clear here that any other CEO, except in the founder-worshipping culture of Silicon Valley, would have been fired at this point — is causing intense turmoil among his top execs.
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Monopoly (or should I say Man-opoly?), as a game that was once about utopian cooperation and is now about worshipping the cutthroat nature of capitalism, is probably better aligned with the values of the Empire.
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So, instead of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a bunch of Hitler-worshipping skinheads, why not head to the nearest supermarket and stuff your face into a good old-fashioned white-flour sheet cake?
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Centuries before the Internet began worshipping LOLcats, the ancient Egyptians venerated felines as gods, burying their preserved remains in cat-shaped coffins (like the two pictured here, which may date as far back as 664 B.C.E.).
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Despite his fate in "Cat People," Mr. Conway turned up as the same character in "Victim," this time trying to shelter a young woman who has come under the sway of a bohemian Satan-worshipping sect.
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In this version, the Prophet Suleiman invites Bilqīs to Jerusalem after receiving word from a traveling hoopoe bird that, far away in the kingdom of Saba, a whole people were worshipping the sun instead of Allah.
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First, worshipping the gods and spirits of nature, which is a tenet of Wicca, is not directly comparable to Indigenous spiritualities, and second, please do not compare the Salem Witch Trials to the genocide of Native Americans.
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On the 19th day of the month of Ramadan, while Ali was worshipping at a mosque in Kufa, Iraq, an assassin from a group of rebels who opposed his leadership fatally struck him with a poisoned sword.
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"Its latest actions to limit the consequences are too little and far too late," she said, noting the live-streaming on Facebook of the shooting that killed 51 people worshipping at two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand.
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Three years ago, in the days after a white supremacist murdered nine black men and women worshipping at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, cities and states pushed a new effort to remove Confederate monuments and memorials.
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CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - Eight months after chasing Ryder Cup veteran Sergio Garcia for an autograph like a hero-worshipping adolescent, Matt Fitzpatrick goes into this week's team event as the youngest of the 24 players on view.
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Even modern films fall into this trap; 2015's campy horror flick Deathgasm features the corpsepaint-wearing protagonist dealing with a "normie" girlfriend—until he transforms her into the perfect riff-worshipping partner by the film's end.
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" In a pointed moment of his address Saturday, Trump remarked that worshipping God is "why our elected officials put their hands on the Bible and say 'so help me God' as they take the oath of office.
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In " The Essence of Christianity " (1841), Feuerbach proposed that when human beings worship God they are simply worshipping what they themselves value, and are projecting those values onto the figment of objectivity they choose to call God.
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There is no room for optimism anymore, only the hard reality that exists for those of us born with the wrong color of skin, into the wrong religion, worshipping the wrong gods, and struggling for the wrong virtues.
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The band knows what works for them—R&B girl-group influenced harmonies with a perpetual, Fleetwood Mac-worshipping classic rock sensibility—and what really comes through on album two is how much they've grown into those assets.
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"On behalf of the entire Steelers organization, we offer our support and condolences to the families of the attack on peaceful citizens worshipping at the Tree of Life Synagogue," team President Art Rooney Jr. said in a statement.
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He meets up with a group of drifters still worshipping the fungus—one of the oldest known intoxicants on the planet—to see why so many people love the drug, and to uncover what makes it so powerful.
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On two of my four nights in town, I did break the cap by not stopping at one (or two) extra-crisp Czech pilsners, an overdraft that I feel most beer-worshipping Prague residents would understand and approve.
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Her roots are in the indigenous Cañari tribe, who lived in the Andes for thousand of years, following the lunar calendar and building temples to the moon, before the sun-worshipping Incas arrived in the late 15th century.
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On the July 9, 2015, episode of his show (starting around 17:40 here), Jones performs what is presumably a dead-on accurate portrayal of the pagan child sacrifice rituals of brainwashed, Moloch-worshipping, tribal village cult members.
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High-Functioning Flesh—the Los Angeles-based, synth-worshipping duo of Gregory Vand and Susan Subtract—have spent the past three years crafting a uniquely mutilated take on EBM's stark electronics, and today they return with even more bleakness.
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It's no wonder that a cult following has emerged in the U.S., driven by bookish, Jo-ish, Elena-like, author-worshipping women, giving the books a reputation that has sometimes reduced them to a universalizing primer on female friendship.
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They've developed a way of life that, through its rituals, ascribes a sacredness to every part of life, from birth to death — basically, the kind of religion less interested in deities than in worshipping the cycle of life itself.
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Turkey angered China by expressing concern about reports of restrictions on Uighurs worshipping and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan last year, and Turkish protesters have marched on China's embassy and consulate in Turkey over Beijing's treatment of Uighurs.
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Trump doesn't regularly attend church, has publicly displayed a wobbly knowledge of the Bible, and has spent his life worshipping Mammon, running casinos (one of which had a strip club) and openly cheating on at least two of his three wives.
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But between the creation of an entire Oregon town worshipping the Bhagwan, an all-out culture war with their blue-collar neighbors, and a whole lot of guns and rigged elections and attempted murders, there's more than enough to work with.
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In the Western world, many people (including those of Christian heritage) still think of Christianity as a powerful force which until a couple of centuries ago had the capacity to force people into thinking, acting and worshipping in certain ways.
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Despite his off-kilter personality, Dead was known as an extremely friendly person, and that warmth was evident in his letters: He didn't sound "evil" at all, despite all the stuff about worshipping darkness and wanting to live among vampires.
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In 2015, Turkey angered China by expressing concern about reports of restrictions on Uighurs worshipping and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, and Turkish protesters have marched on China's embassy and consulate in Turkey over the treatment of Uighurs.
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Interfaith voices have been some of the loudest expressing solidarity for the victims of the shooting that left 11 dead on Saturday — the worst attack on worshipping Jews in American history according to the director of the American Jewish Archives.
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I call it 'worshipping handstands'—no shade on handstands, because I am literally obsessed with handstands…girl, I get it—but people who are like 'my worth is fully tied up in whether or not I can practice these arm balances.
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It soon became apparent that Dilton and Ben were more than just worshipping this deity made of sticks and leaves: The boys believed that they were living in some fantasy world, all through a Dungeons & Dragons-adjacent roleplaying game called Gryphons & Gargoyles.
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Menopause is often considered a taboo topic because of our youth-worshipping culture, and medical students aren't always educated on the condition and how to help patients who have it, according to Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a gynecologist and professor at Yale University.
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But the duty of encouraging religion, especially the Christian religion, is very different from the right to force the conscience of other men or to punish them from worshipping God in the manner which they believe they are accountable to him requires.
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If the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word "grail" as "any greatly desired and sought-after objective, ultimate ideal, or reward," then this takes worshipping at the altar of rare streetwear and sprints, 100 miles an hour, off into the distance with it.
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In Texas, a transphobic bathroom bill mirroring North Carolina's seemed destined to pass in the legislature before corporate interests worshipping the almighty dollar saw the mess it had made in the Tar Heel state and leaned on Texas conservatives to drop it.
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Along with a cast that included the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Gandini was about to engage in a complex ritual: resurrecting the titular pharaoh (a sun-worshipping iconoclast best known as Tutankhamun's father) through several hours of minimalist music and high-intensity juggling.
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The lingering sense that some of it could have been true stuck around for years, subconsciously lending plausibility to the idea that Harry Potter and his friends were a subtle attempt to induct children into Satan-worshipping cults or witchcraft-practicing covens.
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And many of the techniques that the Unification Church used to proliferate in America — such as the focus on worshipping in fragmented "home churches" outside of the aegis of an official church organization or building — have been embraced by the mainstream evangelical community.
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The Whills was brought back to prominence in modern canon with the introduction of Baze Malbus and Chirrut Îmwe in last year's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, two characters who were former Guardians of the Whills, Force-sensitive, Force-worshipping Jedi temple acolytes.
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This mission extends far beyond the educational realm: the government has called for artists and architects to serve socialism, clamped down on video-streaming sites that carry lots of foreign content and even proposed renaming housing developments that carry "over-the-top, West-worshipping" names.
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He also rants about Bangladesh's right-wing, Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami, blasting them for their failure to implement the "law of Allah" during their time in power and congratulating "masses of cow-worshipping, pagan Hindus" on religious occasions, among many other perceived wrongs.
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This low-key party may be surprising to fans who remember Bieber's wilder days, but lately, the "What Do You Mean?" singer has spent more time worshipping at his megachurch and getting emotional while riding bikes around New York City than hitting the club.
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Though these authors took "Hunab Ku" as a great Maya god, "Hunab Ku," which means "The only god," is actually the name given in Yucatec Maya, one of more than two dozen Mayan languages, for the Christian god that many Maya were forced into worshipping.
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" White, who left the evangelical Baptist Church and later the Presbyterian Church because he didn't like the institution of religion, said that being spiritual "is about worshipping a being, while knowing that there are different religions throughout the world and they can't all be wrong.
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I was deeply chilled by the white supremacists marching in Charlottesville in 2017 with their chants of "Jews will not replace us" and I was horrified and enraged and terrified by the murder of 11 mostly elderly Jews worshipping in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October.
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"The bottom line is this: no civilians should have to ever intervene to prevent their fellow human beings from being massacred while out for a movie, dancing, checking out a favorite band, worshipping, getting an education, or just walking down a crowded street," Heyne added.
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"If we do not get up off our knees and stop worshipping scientists and doctors who have too little knowledge and have been given too much power, tomorrow we will not be able to get on a bus, train or plane," one meme said.
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The Nimoys' memories, home movies, and up-close-and-personal reflections get beyond the usual bits of trivia, providing a sense of how a barber's kid from Boston could make a green-blooded, logic-worshipping man from the stars seem so familiar — and often so aspirational.
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Within this category are Pentecostal churches that stem from a revival begun in America over a century ago; subgroups within established churches, which after 1960 began worshipping in a similar way; and newer churches that use Pentecostal style and language, with a fresh stress on prosperity.
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" And the fools worshipping it were Republicans, he explained; they had fought to make the world safe for banking, to prosecute foreign wars, and to provide cheap consumer goods ("garbage from China"), while failing to stop unchecked economic exploitation from destroying "family and faith and culture.
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Whether it was Rorschach's noise-soaked passages that fell somewhere between bands on Amphetamine Reptile and Ebullition, Earth Crisis' extension of Judge's mid-tempo militarism, or the Charles Manson-worshipping of Integrity that gifted the genre with nihilistic occultism, bands were rarely aligned musically, much less ideologically.
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A few weeks ago the pop stars teamed up for "One Kiss"—a track which, in manner of everything Harris has made of late, is a sun-worshipping, house-tinged barrage that will no doubt see the royalties rolling in once Love Island starts up again.
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There are several mega churches within Los Angeles County alone with weekly attendance well over 5,000, which begs the question: How is it possible that 60,000 are living in the streets, while so many self-identified Christian Evangelicals are worshipping in buildings large enough to house that many parishioners?
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Hundreds of churches, mosques and synagogues bear witness to more than five centuries of Bosnia's multi-faith past, and the capital Sarajevo is known locally as a "small Jerusalem" with its main ethnic groups - Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks - all worshipping within meters of each other.
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In 2016, Broadly went to Nepal to witness the centuries-old tradition of worshipping Kumari, a living goddess manifested in the body of a young girl, to see how life is for the sacred children spending their lives in a temple—and what happens when they grow up.
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Glass was later exposed as a serial fabricator who made up stories about a George H.W. Bush–worshipping evangelical church and a political memorabilia convention selling condoms plastered with Monica Lewinski's image, as well as false tales of former presidential advisor Vernon Jordan lusting after young female colleagues.
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But if you're a good hot-dog-worshipping 'Murican like the rest of us, you can soundtrack your backyard polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fest with a new Spotify playlist curated by the mayor of Flavortown, lover of Donkey Sauce, honorary Smash Mouth member, and seemingly Nice Dude, Guy Fieri.
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Every biographer has a complicated love affair with his subject, and it seemed these friendships offered Moser a way to talk about his own vexed arc: moving from the rapture of worshipping Sontag to the sense of feeling betrayed by her imperfections, her cruelty, and her petty tyrannies.
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Not since the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution -- the tumultuous 1966-76 political movement marked by ideological fervor -- has the Chinese public seen so much leader-worshipping in state media, including daily stories exalting Xi's wisdom and achievements as well as elaborate songs and dances dedicated to him on national television.
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But beyond the whole witches worshipping Satan thing, Rosemary's Baby is, at its core, a story about the expert gaslighting of a woman, and the techniques so embedded in our societal structure that she doesn't notice it's happening until it's too late — and that's something that, sadly, doesn't feel dated.
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Whether it was the rise of the atmospheric, emo-worshipping SoundCloud rap movement, the chilled-out YouTube rave music of lo-fi house, or the experimental bubblegum-pop assault of PC Music, each of these scenes initially faced backlash for their willingness to challenge the norms of their respective genres.
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It took Le Guin the first half of her career as a published novelist to learn how to write female protagonists in a male-dominated and male-glorifying genre, and now she is learning to write from the perspective of old age in the youth-worshipping medium of the internet.
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The FBI's hate crime highlights list a number of crimes, including a Colorado plot to blow up a synagogue, an Oregon man sentenced to federal prison for targeting a Catholic Church and two guilty pleas in the bombing of an Islamic Center in Minnesota where congregants were worshipping in the mosque.
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Hot Topic reigned supreme as a new movement in our nation called for the commodification of alternative lifestyles in a desperate attempt to feel close to the kind of emotional authenticity that we denied ourselves as we figured out what came after worshipping the shrine of the blond pop icon.
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So despite the aims of the group being more practical than, say, devil-worshipping this endorsement of The Witch by the Satanic Temple struck us as unusual and likely to make horror fans more interested in the film than they were in the last dozen films about witchcraft, demons or Old Scratch himself.
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They may feel that in order to be competitive with their male peers they must leave their kids in daycare for nine hours so that a nanny or grandparent (if they even have that support) can put them to bed, and decide that worshipping at the altar of workaholism isn't for them.
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Their journey aboard S.S. Lion Orgy (the tribe is actually worshipping Frasier, who was a real-life sensation in the '70s and inspired the 1973 film Frasier, the Sensuous Lion and a song of the same name by Sarah Vaughan) is, like all things this season, a test for its capsule character.
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It's entirely possible that Melisandre is going to Volantis to visit that big ole Red Temple they have, which is the largest Red Temple in the world of Game of Thrones and is also home to the Fiery Hand, a R'hllor-worshipping private army that answers to the High Priest of the Red Temple.
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Somehow he makes it all work – including the assertion that all his girl's previous lovers were just "practise" for him, the OTT worshipping of Nicki Minaj (who, on Take Care, is a stand-in for strong women everywhere), and managing to whip up his own insecurity and narcissism up into something moving rather than objectionable.
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Elsewhere, Eiichi Ohtaki (another former member of Happy End) consistently reshaped his sound throughout his musical career, evolving from his folky proto-city pop beginnings (heard best on "Yubikiri") to tackling a freewheeling, oddball concoction of old-fashioned sounds on Niagara Moon to culminating his sound with the beachy, Phil Spector-worshipping classic A Long Vacation.
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The memory of the pharaohs Hatshepsut and Akhenaten were both targeted for erasure: Hatshepsut as stepmother of the succeeding pharaoh, in what may have been an attempt to legitimate the change in the line of succession; Akhenaten for his rejection of traditional gods — and their powerful priesthoods — in favor of worshipping the Aten, the sun disk, alone.
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Using strange and discarded tools, like the cumbersome camera, the dregs of the Hudson River, and nutritional supplements for livestock, McKinley builds a bridge between humanity's pagan past and its dizzying present, where in the face of gender inequality and environmental distress, people are clamoring for connection to a bygone era of earth worshipping and matriarchy.
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" The poster recounted an ironic life story: "always think I'm Swedish, Germanic and white as fuck… grow up to be a white nationalist, worshipping Hitler etc … grandparents get old and start doing family research … turns out I'm 25% ethnically Russian, 233% ethnically Finnish and 25% ethnically Sami … MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
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Right after the deadly encounter between a virtual rocker wolf and an angry elderly man in Takeshi Murata's OM Rider (2016), the evening closes by Plastique Fantastique's electro-ritual, mixing stroboscopic lights and internet imagery, while worshipping blockchain technology and throwing glitter towards the symbolically sacrificed Simon O'Sullivan, in the name of the Bitcoin Faerie (2016).
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The teenagers are initially assigned to the usual Breakfast Club caste system (Will's creepy, Clash-worshipping brother Jonathan as the rebel/outsider, Mike's sister Nancy as the aspirational prep, her redeemable bully of a boyfriend Steve as the token jock, and dorky proto-hipster Barb, whose character has already spawned a cottage industry of internet worshippers).
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To worshipping CEOs, the man known simply as "Masa" is a visionary without peer, a charismatic daredevil who is one of the few tech investors willing to actually sacrifice his own billions, his own reputation and his own labor — whatever it takes — to gain access to a once-in-a-lifetime generation of companies that will enrich his investors and himself.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a season of endless destruction — of political institutions by democracy-crushing autocrats, of the natural environment by corporations and consumers alike, of precious human lives by gun-worshipping fanatics, and of hope by these and other forces too complex to control — art, music, poetry, and the Muses' other gifts should provide some kind of reassurance, refuge, or balm.
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If this were a movie (and that movie would probably go a little something like the dad-worshipping Field of Dreams), Schumer would have tracked down the slick bank managers who took away the farm in the first place, exacted some sort of revenge, and left them angrily throwing their construction hats at the ground as she undermined their plot to turn the farm into a luxury apartment building.
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Watch: Stonehenge Stoners & Worshipping Wizards: 12 Hours at the World's Biggest Pagan Party The film, which premiered in the US in June, comes out in the UK in time for Halloween, but don't expect a real-life take on The Exorcist—Di Giacomo's documentary aims for more fly-on-the-wall realism than gory thrills, and its horrors are more profoundly saddening than they are jump-in-your-seat scary.
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To a striking degree, the manic activity that arose from the formulation of the original Protestant ethic resembles the strange and obsessively wealth-worshipping world of latter-day evangelical faith — from the "positive thinking" gospel of Norman Vincent Peale (far and away Donald Trump's favorite religious thinker) to the self-hymning splendor of today's prosperity gospel — a vision of boundless divinely sanctioned individual success now identified with its best-known apostle, megachurch pastor Joel Osteen.
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One complaint about Hereditary that I have some sympathy for (expressed best in what I saw as a subtweet of the film by Vanity Fair's K. Austin Collins, one of my favorite film writers) is that the devil-worshipping cult pulling strings is very much a cult straight out of a movie, not the more mundane horror of a real cult, which strips people of their connections, their means, and often their lives.
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