Sentences with phrase «many human inventions»

Bitcoinist: As an assistant professor of economics, what do you think Bitcoin can be compared to as far as human inventions go?

Would you say that love or hate are human inventions?»

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787): «All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

Maybe the Bible is a total human invention and God, should he exist, created the universe just as science sees it, leaving zero trace of his existence?

Actually in the universe there is no right or wrong... this is a human invention... animals don't even subscribe to this concept.

An all knowing and all powerful God could do whatever he pleased so the idea that those are mutually exclusive is a human invention.

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

Social status is an irrelevance, a human invention of no spiritual importance; one can not allow the human evaluation of an occupation's importance to be placed above the judgment of God who put you there.

Their point is not simply to document or celebrate the variety of human invention, but to remind us, as Herbert did, how many are the avenues of grace that can lead us into the presence of God.

Should we believe another religious nutjob who thinks myths and legends (Satan, Jesus, God, Moses, Virgin Mary) are real and can hear and help them, or should we listen to rational individuals who tell us that there is NO supernatural dimension and that ALL gods, Gods, Goddesses (Mary) are human inventions designed to enslave humanity in the supernatural?

His knowledge of modern linguistics led him to assert: «Language is a human invention, in that it reflects social convention regarding the relationship between the sound and the meaning.

Mathematics is a human invention, where we develop the math that is useful.

A pure human invention used to dominate and kill others that don't think or believe like us.

Calendars are a human invention (the one in use in the US is a spin - off of the Roman one, with Norse influences).

Many human inventions are not created to cause harm, but are produced in a way that violates human rights (think about Apple's less - than - stellar human rights record).

Dyer pictures a heavenly city full of human inventions.

But in the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) the privileging of Christian discourse and the distinction between vulgar religion and rational theism both dissolve, and all talk of God is unmasked as the product of human invention.

Also, lets talk about the comment from Viola / Barna that «And historically, it can be demonstrated that the church in its present form didnâ $ ™ t originate with God, but from human inventions and traditions.

God, always on the safe side, stationed one of his angels with a sword (because guns were not yet invented by men and for some curious reason angelic inventions seem to always lag one step behind human inventions) at the entrance of the garden to keep Adam and Eve and their little youngin's away.

When one views the world with no definite theological bias one way or the other, one sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions.

One thing is certain though, religions are human inventions and have no light to shed on the subject.

Without considering the many thousands of other gods that have been ruled false throughout the ages, the reasons why these gods were determined to be merely human inventions, and applying those criteria to their own deity Christians aren't fairly judging God's existence, are they?

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

By coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.

And athiesm is just another human invention.

However, what if all our symbols and myths, our ceremonies and dogmas were unexpectedly and suddenly exploded, and to our awful surprise, we could see beyond these human inventions to discover not the Abyss but the real, actual presence of the living God?

And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

«All national inst.itutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

Perhaps our notion of a God that is sitting «up there» judging is all just a human invention.

When I ask you what type of proof you require, your answer is to define what you will NOT accept as proof (anything having to do with human invention, testimony, etc.), but when it comes to what you WILL accept as proof your response is «God should know exactly what would work for me.»

Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»

the ordered discipline rooted in reliable knowledge of that which is ultimately and universally real (God), although different from both material reality and human invention, and accessible to reasoned discourse (logos).

I would guess that what I'm trying to say is that the way that religious concepts change over time points more to the religions being a human invention not a revealed truth.

Never anywhere has any doctrine on earth brought God and man so near together as has Christianity; neither could anyone else do it, only God Himself can, every human invention remains after all a dream, an uncertain imagination.

Indeed, Justice Kennedy recently has gone so far as to maintain that the belief that «there is an ethic and a morality which transcend human invention» is itself religious.

The law on non-contradiction of a human invention.

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

Ideas of freedom, justice, happiness, equality, fairness and all the other values we may live by are human inventions, and we can be proud of that, as we strive to live up to them.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.

The circular wheel with a long rod or axle protruding from its center is the archetypal human invention: though its precise origins are lost in time, it has contributed to any number of technological advances since being deployed more than 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamian potters» wheels.

Moyer: Yeah, with our good riddance section, we looked a lot of human inventions that we thought, you know, their time has come and gone.

Sacks celebrates this ingenious human invention, letter by letter, in a historical chronicle packed with curious trivia.

The best path to choose is based on not letting the chiming clock control your life, but to use it effectively, for it is our human invention.

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Since then, we have continued to think that the average — a human invention — represents everyone or that any deviation from the average is what defines you.

Reading is a human invention, something our brains don't learn to do automatically.

We take for granted the measurement of variables such as length, weight and temperature, but it is worth remembering that these variables and their measurement were human inventions.

There's romance, war, and history of the ancient world, all tightly wrapped in a vivid sense of the joy derived from human invention.

Stock markets are an even more recent human invention.