లౌకిక లేదా రాజకీయ విషయాలను నియంత్రించడానికి వారి ప్రభావాలను ఉపయోగించి పూజారులకు ఒక దారుణమైన సూచన,

priestcraft's Usage Examples:

their hearts, I will work a reformation among them, and I will put down all lyings, and deceivings, and priestcrafts, and envyings, and strifes, and idolatries.

The first section describes the origin of priestcraft and the origins of religion, which is established through a bardic form.

condemns Nehor to death for the murder of Gideon and accuses him of priestcraft (Alma 1:12).

illogical and dangerous doctrines (accusations typically referred to as "priestcraft").

labours!" Orwell portrays established religion as "the black raven of priestcraft—promising pie in the sky when you die, and faithfully serving whoever.

They were primarily motivated by priestly fraud or "priestcraft".

Catholics were not required to denounce allegiance to the Pope, because priestcraft had initiated more problems throughout history than aristocracy.

both Hobbes and Edward Gibbon in their own historical debunkings of priestcraft.

Gujarat, India, a religious reformer who spoke against formalism and priestcraft.

"We wish to worship God, not as slaves of bigotry and priestcraft but as the enlightened descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

commissioner threw the book across the room and said, "Faugh! It smells of priestcraft.

DR is designed around three major skill types, namely combat skills, priestcraft skills and witchcraft skills.

"As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion.