People ask me if I everthought ofwriting achildren's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view,fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.Reza Aslan:...In the 5,000-year history ofJewish thought, the notion of aGod-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.......the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, thedoctrine ofeternaldamnation, and onecustom, that of the anathema. ~Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual. The intellectual craves a social order in which uncommon people perform uncommon tasks every day. ~Eric Hoffer.
Anathema was originally used as a term forexile from thechurch but evolved to mean "set apart,banished, denounced". The word comes fromKoine Greek ἀνάθεμα, meaning "something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil", from ἀνατίθημι (anatithēmi), meaning "offer as a votive gift", from ἀνά (ana), meaning "on", and τίθημι (tithēmi), meaning "I put". It originally meant something lifted up as an offering to the gods; it later evolved to mean to be; formally set apart;banished,exiled,excommunicated; and enounced, sometimesaccursed.
People ask me if I everthought ofwriting achildren's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view,fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
AllChristian powers that are stillneutral would be impelled to rise up againstTurkey and cry anathema against her|inhuman Government and herferocious 'Committee of Union and Progress,' and they would extend theresponsibility to Turkey'sAllies.
If you're asking if whetherJesus expected to be seen asGod made flesh, as the livingembodiment, the incarnation of God, then the answer to that is absolutely no. Such a thing did not exist inJudaism. In the 5,000-year history ofJewish thought, the notion of aGod-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for. The idea that Jesus could've conceived of himself — or that even his followers could've conceived of him — asdivine, contradicts everything that has ever been said about Judaism as areligion.
...the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, thedoctrine ofeternaldamnation, and onecustom, that of the anathema.
...rather than frankly acknowledging the troublingtruth, anathema to ademocratic society, that the greatwriter, like the contented worker, remains anerratic and anomalousevent,...
We not only do notbelieve that any are foreordained toevil by thepower of God, but even state with utterabhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.
The word [anathema] literally means something set up or laid by to be kept, as avotive offering might be hung on atemple wall after being devoted to a god. Because offerings devoted to the true God were commonly burnt in their entirety or otherwise destroyed, the word inbiblical usage signifies something ‘accursed’ ordoomed todestruction”.
Edward William Fudge, “Galatians and Corinthians: Exposition, Galatians 1:8-9,” from The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment, Third Edition. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2011 quoted inThe Center for Theological Studies
Good Omens : Any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put littlefaith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt.
Any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put littlefaith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt.
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/ talk to my budgie"; when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.
It may be tempting tofocus on thefact that, even among those who supportequality, men's involvement as fathers remains a far distance from what most women want and most children need. Yet it is also important to acknowledge how far and how fast many men have moved towards apattern that not long ago virtually all men considered anathema.
To our age anything Delphic is anathema. We want the definite. As certainly as ours is a time of the expert and technician, we are living under adynasty of theintellect, and the aim of the intellect is not to wonder andlove and grow wise aboutlife, but to control it.
To conservativeAmericans, he was anathema, an American turncoat. ToGreeks, both those who followed him and those who hated him, he was the dominant political figure of the era.
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual. The intellectual craves a social order in which uncommon people perform uncommon tasks every day.
Eric Hoffer, inThe Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 12: "Concerning Individual Freedom".
Robert Neville looked out over the newpeople of theearth. Heknew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like thevampires, he was anathema and blackterror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came,amusing to him even in hispain. … Fullcircle. A new terrorborn indeath, a newsuperstition entering the unassailable fortress offorever. I amlegend.
She even tried the one which everyromantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch ofearth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.
Anathemas own form ofwitchcraft is similar: any prowlingmaniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all.
A select militia defined as only the privileged class entitled to keep and bear arms was considered an anathema to a freesociety, in the same that Americans denounced select spokesman approved by the government as the only class entitled tofreedom of thepress.
Our security depends on the [[{Allies|Allied Powers]] winning againstaggressors. TheAxis Powers intend todestroydemocracy, it is anathema to them. Oursecurity depends on the Allied Powers winning against aggressors. We cannot provide that aid if the public are against it; therefore, it is our responsibility to persuade the public that aid to the victims ofaggression is aid to American security. I expect the members of myadministration to take everyopportunity to speak to this issue wherever they are invited to address public forums in the weeks ahead.
We do not believe that that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utterabhorrence that if there are those who want tobelieve so evil a thing, they are anathema.
Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can usedrugs and escape a horrible fate is an … anathema to theseidiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drughysteria as apretext to set up aninternationalpolice apparatus.
