Sentences with phrase «about mythology in»

A recent film, The Long Road to Mazatlan, is about mythology in the American West and cowboys as gay icons.

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what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Honest christians would simply declare they entertain this mythology because it makes them feel better about themselves and the world, and that if you roll in this mythology, you can feel better about yourself and your world too.

Persian mythology, in many respects, has a «Titanic» rather than «Olympian» feel, oddly similar in some respects to Celtic, and if you read it, you will know what Matthew Arnold was going on about in «Sohrab and Rustum.»

Now if you will excuse me, I think I'll just forget about you and put you in the same place in history with Zeus, Mithra, Isis, and all the other «gods,» in the MYTHOLOGY DEPARTMENT.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Write an article that panders even a bit to religionists, and they come out in droves yapping about how the sky fairy wants us to do good works, and then debating their various versions of mythology.

In actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controIn actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controin one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controin charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have control.

I didn't find much mythology about the Musk - Goats as I googled today except humans have loved hunting them and eating them into oblivion forever in spite of their «formidable strength».

With less panache, but with equal force and even further empirical social science evidence, her method resembles Roland Barthes» Mythologies in its outlines of the deep structure of the contemporary beliefs and practices surrounding our most deeply held moral codes about human sexual desire — or should I say eros.

Atheism is about believing in nature and reality (science, technology, etc) as opposed to believing in magic mythology without questioning its authenticity.

The kerygma, says Bultmann, otherwise called the gospel message, must be accepted in its purity, free of the distortions of mythology and free of the falsifications imposed on it when it is confused with scientific knowledge about the natural world.

Christianity is a unique religion in some senses — its goal is not to explain how these things in nature came about, like Greek mythology.

Thus you seem to go some distance along the road of demythologizing, but not far enough, and you fail to bring out the scandal of mythology in the New Testament language about Christ's dereliction and his heavenly intercession.

In mythology — e.g. in the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etcIn mythology — e.g. in the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etcin the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etc..

We can talk to modern man about the crisis in which he stands in rebellion against God only after the question of mythology has been solved.

I think it is sad that, in the 21st Century, most major newspapers still carry astrology columns and that the Bronze Age mythology of Adam and Eve is still seen as true by about 40 % of the country, but things are changing slowly, as the inevitable forces of science and reason pry open even the most firmly closed of creationist minds.

Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they made and named as in Greek mythology...

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

I think if anything this country would be a mormon country since it was founded here... but since mythology is all myths lets all be happy we live in a country where people can believe what they wish and be open about it yet those beliefs based on nothing more then each persons personal «experiences» which are questionable at best have little impact on the government which dictates the laws we live by... WRONG!

It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

The public mythology about Gutenberg locates him in a saintly world of disinterested inventors.

By late 1997, public discourse about the Net was so deeply anchored in Gutenbergian mythology that skeptics of the digital revolution were sometimes dismissed without a reasonable hearing.

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

Sadly you also throw around the term «child abuse» with a cavalier looseness that suggests you don't have the foggiest idea what child abuse is... it's a shame abused children everywhere can't write in and tell you about their trevails at the hands of an abuser... Jesus Christ was no abuser... if I'm wrong about Jesus, he was at least a Rabbi who loved his followers, and who taught, peace, compassion, forgiveness, and inclusiveness... If I'm right, Jesus is the most amazing, wonderful gift GOD could ever give to his beloved creation... in either event, belief in him, and sharing those beliefs with children is not abuse, it's loving and nurturing fact based belief, not mythology...

Lest it seem as though I would subordinate religious to metaphysical language, thereby reinforcing the Western rationalistic critique of religion, I hasten to point out that in Hinduism, philosophy never developed in opposition to religion; the philosophical critique of energy that never ceases to preoccupy Western culture could not arise in a culture like Hinduism, where the language about the gods — what we call mythology — was never denied its rightful place in the scheme of things.

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

How in hell do you get from there to Bronze Age Palestinian mythology about Yahweh and Jesus?

Evolution is written about in a 2,000 year old book of late Bronze Age and Greco - Roman Jewish mythology.

They are instantly recognizable and a considerable mythology has sprung up about them, particularly in Texas.

(Again speaking to Progress, in an interesting forthcoming interview which has been prominently reported for rather loose language in asserting that Labour «lied» about immigration, unwisely extending the popular mythology of a conspiracy theory that this endlessly noisy debate has been silenced from above).

For years top body builders such as the late Vince Gironda touted diets rich in eggs, raw milk, red meat and other animal products while warning about the dangers of soy protein.2 In today's soy - pushing climate, the U Conn researchers describe these legitimate concerns of Gironda and others about feminization and testosterone depletion as «fears» that «largely stem from body building mythologies.&raquin eggs, raw milk, red meat and other animal products while warning about the dangers of soy protein.2 In today's soy - pushing climate, the U Conn researchers describe these legitimate concerns of Gironda and others about feminization and testosterone depletion as «fears» that «largely stem from body building mythologies.&raquIn today's soy - pushing climate, the U Conn researchers describe these legitimate concerns of Gironda and others about feminization and testosterone depletion as «fears» that «largely stem from body building mythologies.»

A fun fact about Les Néréides is that the name derives from Greek Mythology in which the Néréides were the sea nymph daughters of Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.

In this series the classic stories about mummies were flavored with Mexican coloring combined with the mythology of the ancient Aztecs.

I enjoy reading really old books about stuff I have always been interested in mythology.

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I have a newfound interest in learning more about Norse mythology, and it truly makes a game special when it encourages the player to learn more beyond the scope of the game itself.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Dogtooth -LRB-» 09) is all about isolationism, where a family teaches their children to only believe in the complex mythology they lay out before them.

«Not happy about the whole Zeus thing (Marvel universe and the Thor movies handled the Greek mythology tie ins sooo much better...) but it sounds like its heart is in the right place...»

Although the identities of the characters played by Alice Eve and Benedict Cumberbatch have been revealed, they don't tell us much about who they actually are in the greater Star Trek mythology, and that's entirely intentional.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

No, I'm not referring to the 1997 movie version of Spawn here, but rather 1981's Clash of the Titans, which mixed Greek mythology with other elements (some Shakespeare and Norwegian mythology is to be found, not to forget about a dash of R2D2 in an out - of - place robotic owl).

McTiernan's script, to date his only screenwriting credit, is some superficial fluffernutter about restless inuat (spirits of Inuit mythology) haunting the L.A. living — except when it's a diffuse meditation on the stateless qualities of Angelenos and California in general.