Greeks and Romans to modern Christians, and it will be found that Popes, priests, and peoples believe as firmly now in supernatural generation as the most crass pagan of which history treats.
Jesus, they gradually encourage ignorance until they reach a superstition as crass as the darkness of a dense fog in a moonless night.
To-day the people no longer suffer from the crassignorance of those of the past.
Nor is it the historians alone who make this crass mistake.
The pure conception of God, of Elohim, as of the spirit informing and supporting the universe, collided with the blurred system of heathen deities and crass idolatry.
Little will be said in these pages of palpable crassheretics like the Cathari, for example.
No need to draw further from this writing, which is characterized throughout by crass ignorance of grammar and all else pertaining to Latin.
He is the mean and brutal male, the crass obstructionist who grudges women their laurels in the equal field.
Others, vivid and adventurous, were checked by the first encounter with the crass reality.
His fellow Bourbon, the amiable Bomba of Naples, is his only equal for dull silliness, crass immorality, and the lack of every manly or kingly virtue.
If it seemed one, then the greater shame to those who wore it, the greater shame to him, the husband, that his more crass nature could throw doubt upon the fineness of the texture of the bond.
What matter if their cruder minds must have the crass physical details of bottles and spoons with which to fight sin-born disease?
In his crass ignorance, he had yet to learn that, in the minds of the elect, good clothes are an essential weapon in contesting the claims of sin-born disease.
Then, voicing his own comments, "Why, then, this crassmaterializing of worship?
But by what crassassumption might he, admittedly woefully defeated in his combat with Fate, oppose his feeble shafts of worldly logic to this child's instinct, an instinct of whose inerrancy her daily walk was a living demonstration?
It is needless to say that the treatment accorded the venerable literary compilation was due to bitter prejudice and crass ignorance.
Oh, how coarse and crass and stupid it sounded--how course and crass and stupid to say it to this small defiant scrap of what seemed the inevitable suffering of the world!
In many cases, naturally, piety runs off into crass superstition.
He may be misled by mob prejudice or mob enthusiasm; but he is not likely to persist in a policy of crass blundering very long.
Of the Catholic writers, Cochlæus ironically drew attention in his “Lutherus septiceps” to the withdrawal that had taken place from Luther’s former crass assertions.
Crass criminals give America cause for pause, only because America either directly or indirectly places crime-weapons in their hands.
The worshipers of Dionysus sought to attain contact with the god partly by a divine frenzy, which was induced by wild music and dancing, and partly by the crass method of eating the raw flesh of the sacred animal, the bull.
All Students are divided intoCrass Foxes (or Fat Foxes), Brand Foxes, and Beer-Burschen.
In the hymns proper, there is no such crass representation of Yahwe, but it is well to recall that Yahwe was not only represented by bull images at Bethel and Dan, but is referred to as the "Bull of Jacob.
They reflect crude and crass ideas of the divine wisdom, power, and mercy.
Be the crass that saved us, Connor, I'm glad of that!
Hacks confessed to an "interviewer," in 1897, that no sooner had he read the pontifical circular in question than he saw in it "a rare opportunity to coin money out of the crass credulity and boundless stupidity of the Catholics.
