But for many in Swiebodzin and across Poland, the monument is an object of veneration.
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In Italy, the word "veneration" comes from Venus, goddess of fertility, called in Italian, Venere.
The festival culminates in a fire-dance in the evening as the highest form of veneration of the Saints.
It sees the veneration of saints, and even excessive attention to the Prophet, as a distraction from God.
To church reformers the veneration of relics was tantamount to idolatry and a symptom of a church gone astray.
The royal families of Saudi Arabia have promoted ultra-conservative Wahhabism, which discourages personal vice, idolatry, veneration of saints, etc.
The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.
Let us pray that the folly being perpetrated by the object of such misplaced veneration today will not bring his country great grief tomorrow.
From ancient times, Mongolian nomads derived their livelihood from mother nature and veneration for the environment is deeply rooted in our culture and history.
They note sourly Japan's continued public veneration of convicted war criminals.
Yet this need not mean that the veneration of shareholder value is wrong, and should be replaced by worship at the altar of some other business deity.
Official veneration of the monarchy has sometimes reached ridiculous proportions.
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The spectacular contemporary architecture, by the New York team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, cradles the modest graces of the Merion structure with an air of religious veneration.
These are mostly ritual objects, architectural carvings and representations of ancestors made for veneration, often featuring the clean, simple lines we now readily associate with modernism, another of Mr. Jaffe's interests.
Such veneration of women may surprise foreign observers of India, considering the recent epidemic of rapes there and publicity about the everyday harassment that Indian women face lewd gestures, catcalls, groping and worse.
Comparing the little-known Pollocks at the Hood with the paintings that later became touchstones of international veneration reveals that we might not have had the latter without the foundation laid by the former.
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This veneration of violence, first demonstrated to the world in the form of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians on city buses, then followed by indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli population centers, has come full circle.
He may also have been affecting a spurious veneration for the court and his belief in the judicial system, seeking to compare his deference for authority with the unruliness and general disrespect exhibited by most criminals.
And maybe, in their veneration of Ronald Reagan, they will listen to that proposition and Republicans will say, we should do this and we can do this in the name of deficit reduction, which is allegedly or supposedly a top priority.
For all our belief in humility, for all the veneration of the modest and supposedly modest, there is no visual in sports quite as satisfying as the called shot the athlete who says he or she will go out and do it, and then does it.
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