Ancient man needed something to figure the world out: ENTER RELIGION... We now have the Sciences to use to do this figuring: EXIT RELIGION.
Some ancient men needed a way to take control and they found it in the gullibility of their fellow man.
Not exact matches
Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive
man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by
ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were
needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.
Throw all tradition and
ancient writings out, and as you say embrace unbelief in them, rationalize them as purely conceptual or figurative rather than literal, we find what primitive
man found, the
need to give thanks.
If anything ever destroys it, it'll be religious nuts who think they're fighting some holy war for the invisible
man who lives in the sky... geez, haven't we outgrown the
needs for these
ancient fairy tales yet?
if you're thinking thoughts like these, clearly you
need to hone up on your
ancient language skills,
man!
Dude, you
need to read your bible and get some
ancient history lessons... those «embellished» stories, as you say, were written by
men who walked and talked with The Christ.
Anyone who accepts the message of salvation in faith accepts it as a child, and stands in a different relationship to God from that of
men in the religions of the
ancient world; he dares to be unconstrained, he has no
need of any mediation nor any mediating persons; he is in immediate relation to God.
The film begins with the first female hominoid, treads through the egalitarian neolithic era, past the
ancient age of literacy, and into the roots of the patriarchy: a world that values
men on a higher level than women because of the
need for physical strength in agriculture and military force.
Need someone to strap a newspaper
man in an
ancient wheelchair, set him on fire and roll him down the street after eating his face like a piece of corn on the cob?
His girls suggested that the display
needed to be livelier, so Barnum exploited his interest in the oddballs of life — the dwarf, the bearded woman, the
ancient woman, the tall
man.
Your humble narrator, Alex, will tell this story my brothers... First they see an
ancient man, leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious, nobody goes there now, inspecting these filthy things and ripping them to pieces, not forgetting a few punches on the offender, to stop this evil habit, next entering a shop and borrowing some
needed money, the owner and wife have to be persuaded with just a little force, for this honor, then teaching a scummy drunk, in the street, the evil of his ways, pounding some sense into his addled brain.