When you pray, do not use a lot of meaningless words, as the pagans do, who think that their gods will hear them because their prayers are long.

你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。

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Athena: Destroy Ares... And the gods will forgive you your past.

雅典娜：“击败阿瑞斯……众神就将宽恕你的过去。”

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Whenever something is made, a flaw is left on purpose so the gods will not be offended.

每完成一件事情时，故意留些瑕疵才不至于冒犯神灵。

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"You are provoking the gods and you act as if there will be no consequence."

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Eventually gods will begin to emerge.

最终就有了神灵的降临。

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So magic in a pagan system, Kaufman claims, is a way of getting around the gods, circumventing the capricious will of the gods and demons.

考夫曼宣称，异教系统中的法术，可以用来应付众神,能使反复无常的神谕和恶魔的诅咒失灵。

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Whether the gods will smile on their newly remade friendship effort remains to be seen.

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The mah song are specially chosen to shift evil from individuals and bring good luck to the community, and it is claimed that they feel no pain as they march around Phuket Town in a trance for two hours, "possessed" by the purifying spirits of the Nine Emperor Gods, who they believe will protect them from any harm or scarring.

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Will he start killing gods from other religions?

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