Sentences with phrase «about the mythology of»

«Too often people have assumed that we have got to make the rise of euroscepticism about the mythology of bendy bananas and bans on chocolate, not the fact that the European budget looks like it's suited to the 1950s and not the 21st century,» he added.

To me as a huge fan of superheroes, I feel the movie is a bit of an insult to what I love about the mythology of the characters.

This is about the mythology of the Guardians themselves... We really wanted to just focus on the story of the Guardians, and Peter Quill and his father, and how that affects everything else with their lives.»

Histories and Lose Learn about the mythology of Westeros as told from the varying perspectives of the characters themselves.

Thomas Wiggins writes about The Mythology of Reform in Educational Administrator Preparation: Antecedents of Paradigms Lost in Chapter 1.

But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.

I feel like my entire body of work has been about the mythology of America, and this book fits squarely within that.

Assassin's Creed III is about the mythology of America, as surely as Once Upon a Time in the West, or The Godfather, or Armageddon, or Grand Theft Auto IV.

The result in black and white is an ego - centric fantasy that says much more about the mythology of the environmental perspective than it says about its detractors.

Not exact matches

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.

If I worked at NASA and insisted that the expedition to Saturn should reveal evidence of the ancient Greek or Roman gods, and kept insisting that the data supported that mythology, I'd expect to be told (first) to stop preaching about it at work, and then get fired if I kept doing it.

No... they're about ignorant fairytales from an archaic old book of ancient mythology.

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?

Science has disproven the «ark» myth, disproves zombies, disproves creation of matter from nothing, disproves virtually everything about mythology.

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?

If a fuzzy warm feeling is all you need as evidence of something being manifest then you could prove just about any mythology you wanted.

At home I've a large library of books about mythology.

but feel free to keep pi $ $ ing and moaning about your imaginary god and the mythology of the babble.

Homer is the vehicle not only for the story of Troy, but also for much of what is known about Greek mythology, prehistory, geography, religion, and the arts.

Christan beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze and Iron Age Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

But all of this fuss about mythology is all so laughable.

Carolers knocking on your door, and wishing to sing songs of mythology, most stores playing songs about round yon virgins.

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 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».

After all his ministry was all about helping the poor, and if I'm not mistaken he had some very specific things to say about moneylending which does not bode well for 99.9 % of America, assuming you subscribe to their mythology.

The «g» is not capitalized when talking about the gods of mythology.

Brandon Stosuy, writing for Pitchfork, argues that «there are Biblical references, and references to mythology, but most of it is squarely about Stevens and his family.»

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.

He may have been the first to recognize that a centralized system of the legends, songs, stories, (what we call entertainment, as well what we call information) forms a compelling mythology reaching every home and confers power that kings, emperors, and popes could only dream about.

However, he is doing what he should, «Mythology can help us hypothesize about events that might have occurred,» he says, «but to prove the reality of them, we have to go beyond myths and search for physical evidence.»

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.

Nor do I worry about the judgment of a bitter and angry person who pins all the hopes of their existence on the mythology of that absent god.

For more information on the development of the New Testament mythology, another free book is «The Truth about Jesus: Is He a Myth?»

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.

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.

Jung states that all mythologies of the world contain beliefs about life after death, speaking of the «modern therapeutic ethos and the premodern Christian hope.»

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.

What gives these purveyors of modren mythology the right to tell ME that I must follow their ideas about my life, and call it «god's law»?

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.

I'm not a Christian and care about the mysticism / spiritualism of the plot only as far as it advances the story (much like the mythology created by JRR Tolkien or the magical alternate - world created by JK Rowling).

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.

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.

If he is right about the book, and he certainly seems to be — and West's response to his review, with its revealing use of the everyone - else - is - compromised mythology and supporting abuse (her conservative critics are «commissars» and «ossified totalitarians,» for example), supports this conclusion — one has to ask why it has so appealed to some conservatives.