Sentences with phrase «our ancient myth»

Truth is too important for mankind to continue believing in ancient myths.

In short, the major stories of the Bible may simply be the monotheistic versions of popular ancient myths.

More and more are realizing religion is all ancient myth and folklore, god is pretend, RCC is a dangerous cult that rips off the poor to sustain their riches and power.

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.

The reality is that as our knowledge has grown it has become ever more evident that the bible is a collection of ancient myths and legends.

The best you can come up with is a fleeting reference to the House of David, which leaves events that supposedly happened before that in the same realm as other ancient myths.

I am in no way shackled to an ancient myth.

No, the actual intent must be to get scientists to abandon their search for answers in this field, thus leaving people to claim that the ancient myths are actually the answer unchallenged.

The FACT that the gospels were written according to the format of ancient myths, (see Dr. Carrier's scolarly video: / / www.youtube.com/watch?v=MclBbZUFSag) in which this FACT isa demonstrated.

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.

men wrote the ancient myths to keep men in power.

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?

Atheists are speaking up and becoming more vocal because we are sick and tired of hearing and having our lives / schools / political systems full of ancient myths and fairy - tales.

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.

In this age of science and discovery, it's tragic that some people still cling to ancient myths.

Let's live in the 21st century without ancient myths affecting national policy.

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

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

Science, in other words, tells stories that make sense, just as ancient myths did.

Face it YOU ARE USING OUR ANCIENT MYTH TO PAVE THE WAY FOR YOUR SCIENCE!

But it's the 21st century now, time to leave the ancient myths behind.

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.

The Bible / Koran, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed from many different cultures over hundreds of centuries or longer.

and they are all ancient myths, invented my primitive men... and here we are in the 21st century without a single scrap of proff of any deity, demon, or heaven or hell, and so many still believe the BS

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

bible... ancient myth and folklore that has been changed very much over centuries... people really need to move past it and into the 21st century

Your ancient myth known as Christianity is collapsing.

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.

The ancient myth of the end - time, by virtue of its cosmic character, was much broader in its outlook than the eschatological concerns of many later Christians.

In this quite striking way the ancient myths did full justice to the reality and finality of death on the one hand and to the mystery, on the other hand, of how death gave rise to new life.

Much has been written about the ancient myth since Sir James Frazer completed his monumental task of assembling the myths and folk - lore of primitive man in The Golden Bough.

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.

It is at this point that the very poetic and symbolic nature of the term «resurrection» begins to make itself felt even in the context of the ancient myth.

These traditionalists pine for a simpler age, for ancient myths, and gentler Christmases evoked by Dickens — along with scenes of sleigh bells, King Wenceslas, and farmlands covered with snow.

It is clearly an adaptation of the ancient myth of Anti-Christ or Beliar, who now appears in the guise of the» Man of Sin.»

Many of the ancient myths, like our dreams, are marked by the complexity of the plot and sub-plots, the lack of consistency in the characters and their actions, and the introduction, without warning, of further players in the cosmic drama.

But there is nothing in the universe that points to any of the gods of ancient myth as anything other than the desire for self - acknowledgement within a narrative structure.

People who believe ancient myths are true are ignorant.

All of Christianity is built on a misinterpretation of an ancient myth.

Why do ignorant people still believe in ancient myths?

The gospels are in the literary form of ancient myths.

Austin, how do you know that the bible is the truth while the other ancient myths are all false?

And xians are those ancient myth believing psychos that hang out under the fraud of religion!!!

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

Whereas the ancient myth bore all the marks of the mythological world to which it was orientated, the myth which the man of faith in the new world finds meaningful will be orientated to the human situation as contemporary man understands it, and it could even be called a «demythologized myth» or «historically - grounded myth».

This is an imaginative story, about man rather than about the gods, and consequently it differs from the ancient myths.

Ancient myths and super sti tions have been around since the evolution of human imagination..

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