Sentences with phrase «not ancient myths»

Not ancient myths written by ancient men that have been butchered throughout history to benefit who ever «knows» the «real» word of god.

Teach kindness, love, respect... not ancient myth.

«Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion.

Not exact matches

Get rid of all human discriminating religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.

Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

So, you see, there are many, many other explanations for a really big wooden boat to have been built by ancient people, and some that don't involve any ancient myths whatsoever, let alone one about a god who decided to destroy mankind which happens to be a pretty common theme throughout religion.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

When it's plain as day that protestants, catholics, etc. don't live any better lives than those that don't believe in ancient myths, then what really is the reason Americans won't vote for a non-believer?

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

While most in our «enlightened» Western society would assume we are beyond the actual worship of the gods out of ancient myths, the truth isn't so clear - cut.

As I said improved knowledge shows that these ancient myths are not correct.

wilbur So would you threaten to send a child to hell for simply not being gullible enough to buy into ancient myths?

The knowledge we have today can't be compared to ancient harmful and ignorant myths, although I admit that being ignorant must feel very comfortable for some and I think people are free and have the right to be stupid, but no one has the right to make it sound as though their personal nonsense is the universal and inflexible truth.

If you don't believe the events in the Gospels really happened, you should have better reasons than the (questionable) idea that since the Gospels contain parallels to ancient myths, the Gospels must also be myths.

Speaking for myself ONLY — not for atheists in general — Stop brainwashing children, open your eyes and stop believing in ancient myths.

Wasn't Moses correcting errors in those ancient creation myths?

I would say that it's more that she's figured out that the bible and religion in general is bull but like a child with a security blanket, she doesn't want to believe what she's figured out (like the child not wanting to believe that they've outgrown the blankie) and is desperately trying to rationalize clinging to her faith when the best thing she could do is free herself from what she deep down inside knows is untrue and silly ancient myths.

Because ancient man did not draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.

While we have tried to show in this way that their classification as myth does not deprive them of meaning, we would only be deluding ourselves if we concluded that the ancient Jew and Christian also classed them as myth.

This other - world, however, represents a retreat, or even an escape, from the empirical world, and is not at all what the ancient myth had in mind.

In view of the fact that Israel pioneered a new road in the ancient world, abandoning the nature myths, and concerning herself with the events of her own history, it is not surprising that the myth of the «dying - and - rising god» found no place at all in the thinking of her prophets.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

Think of the ancient Greeks or Egyptians, how about the Norsk and Myans, we study them but don't believe them to be anything but myths and stories.

They attack EVERYTHING that is different and doesn't conform to their collection of cherry picked verses from an ancient, contradictory, illogical, book of myths and legends.

Modern Hungarians, myth notwithstanding, are not descendants of the ancient Huns.

Questioning the nonsensical belief in fairy tales based on an ancient tribal myths, and encouraging the «believer» to employ reason and rationally evaluate his or her position, isn't an attack.

If the ancient world are not filled with such myths than does that mean the the Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian gods were as real as God?

Parallel stories in ancient myths do not mean that the Gospel accounts of Jesus are false.

your comment makes no sense... I have an IQ of 130 and I definitely don't believe in ancient bronze age myths and parables.

For all our superior attitudes toward the ancients, we are not so free of myth or magic ourselves.

Whether in ancient creation myths or modern public relations campaigns, names aren't merely collections of written symbols or uttered sounds — they are subtle - but - powerful tools to shape reality.

As recently as 2010, the ancient myth of the falling uterus was cited as a reason why ski jumping was «not appropriate for ladies.»

I'm not sure how one takes cool stuff like ancient myths and you call this archeology?

An ancient myth of a fabled creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her friend Fawn, an animal fairy who's not afraid to break the rules to help an animal in need.

She discovers that Narnia is big enough to contain not just the adventures she loved as a child, and not just the Christian themes that now appear obvious, but a whole world full of stories and wildness, bravery and treachery, ancient myths and Santa Claus; that loving Narnia allowed her to love all the stories it contained, referenced or built upon, and thus opened up untold worlds.

Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt possessed knowledge of ultimate causes, that knowledge would be written into their temples not in explicit texts but in harmony, proportion, myth and symbol.

Lance Esplund, art critic for the Wall Street Journal, writes of Joan Snyder: «The functions of Ms. Snyder's art, first and foremost, are to further the tradition of painting and to explore the most serious aspects of the human condition; to connect us not only to one another and to nature but to ancient rites and myths.

The polished and glitzy Untitled (2012) piece forged frommeat tenderisersis part Greek sculpture, Medusa - myth and part punk - metal (pun not quite intended), exhibiting both the stateliness of Ancient Greek busts and the flamboyance of pop culture.