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  • We therefore wonder if much popular Christianity is a syncretised super-structure on an underlying worldview that has not been radically transformed by the biblical gospel.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Alex Tang 2010

  • With childlike naivete he accepted all, he adopted all, and he syncretised it all as best he could into the loose system on which Pharisaism grafted itself.

    Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891

  • Most traditional holidays are syncretised perversions of even older traditions, which then get secularized into excuses to eat a whole bunch.

    Latest Articles Asteroid 2010

  • When we allow ourselves to be controlled by our western values, the Jesus of scripture gets syncretised with the western worldview and he simply becomes one of us.

    Backyard Missionary 2009

  • Isn't El Elyon a remnant of the older Canaanite religion, not yet fully syncretised with Yahwism?

    By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog 2008

  • Roman soldiers syncretised worship of Mithra with their rituals, and this developed into the

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Minhaj Ahmed Khan Lodi 2008

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