In the first Thor movie, Odin calls them «
an ancient force of infinite destruction,» so yeah... they're not playthings.
There, he caught a glimpse of its evil ruler, Dormammu,
an ancient force of destruction.
Not exact matches
you believe in a narrow view
of a god based on
ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings
of a supposed son
of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware
of the possibility
of a creative
force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!
The new fact stains the
ancient truths,
forcing them to adjust their framings in some small but irreversible way in order to take account
of it.
It was the latest religious controversy in the heavily Christian Air
Force, but this particular issue has
ancient and somewhat surprising roots: In the early days
of Christianity, it was Christians who refused to swear by powers they didn't believe in.
I'm not convinced that just because another
ancient group
of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to
force that belief on the Hebrews.
The latter in particular appears to have been designed not to explicate
ancient texts but to
force the Jewish religion into line with his own entirely philosophical preference for a liberal order supportive
of individual freedom.
as in the denouement
of some
ancient tragedy the
forces at work were now furthered, now hindered, until God's ends were achieved.
This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis
of ancient literature has become a very significant
force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works
of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations
of religious experiences and convictions.
Shortly after multiple midnight bulldozing destruction
of a
ancient Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem crushing hundreds
of headstones and monuments under the guise
of forcing a Israeli Peace Museum on the Palestinian people, rabid bands
of Zionists firebombing a Mosque must seem rather tame.
Whereas
ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy
of capricious
forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.
Even though the Bible was pointing away from the gods
of ancient man, it was still
forced to use the God - language
of ancient man.
In general, I don't care what a candidates cult affiliation is unless he seems to be the type
of cult member that will want to press his cults
ancient (or not so
ancient) beliefs on others through the
force of law.
Outsiders might see those connections as nothing but acrobatics, a perverse determination to
force a random collection
of ancient Mediterranean texts to fit the six o'clock news.
but notice that in Leviticus 17:14 we are provided with an explicit explanation
of what the Hebrew nation was discussing when blood came into the discussion: In plenty
of ancient rituals it was clear that blood was a physical manifestation
of life -
force and consuming blood
of another was an attempt to steal the life that God had given that individual being.
Many soldiers
of «our» Armed
Forces of Today's Time are
of religious Intermixtures and even
of Secularisms» accords.Today's Coliseums are likened to
Ancient Romes in regards to the people becoming emotionally stimulated and having something to talk about.
This commentator, like every commentator, is deeply set in a myriad
of experiential
forces that can not be screened out simply by a resolve to do the «canonical,» even as the
ancient powers
of canonization were not innocent and detached.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS gathered a large crowd at the
ancient amphitheater in Plamyra and executed the individuals who had been accused
of being part
of the Syrian government's
forces.
The sun drenched valley
of the Nile and the flooded plains
of ancient Sumer both exerted profound influence in the molding
of the outlook
of ancient men for whom Egypt and Babylonia were the world and their
forces the realities by which man must direct his life.
Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the
ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages
of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms
of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards
of individual and social ethics, all
of which are intimately
of the modern world because, indeed, they have been
of the vital motivating
forces which made our world
of the human spirit.
Over the centuries
ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form
of myths, or stories
of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen
forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.
As
ancient humanity slowly accumulated its knowledge, the early cultures learned to accommodate themselves to the
forces and pressures
of the natural environment.
Our
ancient forebears stood in such awe
of the
forces of nature that they created concepts, symbols and a language by which to understand them.
Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind
of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen
forces about him in the form
of stories
of the gods and spirits.
An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part
of the
ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for
force is not
of God.»
In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge
of the global archeological community — is being
forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands
of illegally acquired
ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.
While great attention therefore needs to be paid to the manipulation
of power and the management
of economic and political
forces, we know that the primary mode by which a community reconstitutes itself is by its interpretation, by its reflection on
ancient memory and tradition, and by its recasting
of that memory and tradition in new ways that are resonant with the new situation.
The autonomy
of humanity from the realm
of supernatural
forces was considered by Marx as an axiomatic ontological truth that had been developed since
ancient times, and he considered it to have an even more respectable tradition than Christianity.
Indeed, not long before, the Idumeans (the descendants
of ancient Edom), from whom the Herods came, were induced by
force to embrace the Jewish faith and practice.
A couple
of points: Mr Giberson states that «evolution does not contradict the Bible unless you
force an unreasonable interpretation on that
ancient book.»
What I mean under the first heading is that religious appeal is directed partly to excite that instinctive fear
of the wrath
of a tyrant which was inbred in the unhappy populations
of the arbitrary empires
of the
ancient world, and in particular to excite that fear
of an all - powerful arbitrary tyrant behind the unknown
forces of nature.
Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea
of History in the
Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea
of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single
force observable by the historian in shaping the idea
of history throughout two millennia
of Western history.»
How could God beat such a powerful armed
force with «warrior camels» — the tanks
of the
ancient world?
To Pagels and company, the discovery
of the
ancient texts in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 has had the salutary effect
of forcing Christianity to reconsider its past.
Obviously, Paul was a
force to be reckoned with, but as David suggested, his use
of polemics, not to mention the recently (40 yrs) discovered art
of ancient rhetoric help us to place his words in the category
of particular and avoid the generalities
of «one size fits all» This is important stuff to consider when trying to make sense
of an apostle that wished castration on some, while preaching a gospel
of love to all the world.
(Credo Mutwa, a leader
of traditional healers, appeared in the Cape Argus recently speaking
of ancient practices involving voluntary quarantine, which he claimed defeated earlier waves
of venereal disease introduced by colonial
forces.)
The conquest
of ancient Mexico by Spain in 1521 and then the conquest
of northwest Mexico by the United States in the 1840's
forced the native population and their succeeding generations into a split and meaningless existence.
Such skepticism may be justified, yet we find ourselves wondering whether DH has not in fact preserved here the very
ancient but real encounter
of free - ranging Syrian
forces with the Yahweh - tribes (notably the Othnielites) inhabiting southern Canaan in the general area south
of Hebron.
Ancient peoples believed that destructive natural
forces were the result
of a God, their sense
of how the natural world works was absent.
The American founders were not, like many
of the
ancient founders, acting from a position
of command, able to compel acceptance
of the Constitution by physical
force or by manipulation
of superstition.
A minute later, Stephen Curry hits a three to
force a Pelicans timeout and the roar becomes something guttural, something
ancient from the bowels
of the arena.
Daniel Mendoza, the heavyweight champion from the London ghetto, had introduced the art
of footwork and some fancy blocking, but the average bare - knuckle pug a century ago was a strong, squat, determined slug
of a man who stood his ground like an
ancient gladiator, dealing out punishment to the limit
of his endurance and taking the full
force of his opponent's blows without flinching.
The fiery, demanding coach who inspired his charges to rise above his constant criticism and learn to «be a man» goes back, at least, to
ancient Sparta and the cruel, if not vicious, discipline that made the Spartans one
of the greatest fighting
forces in the
ancient world.
Once a port for the
ancient Maya, then a base for Spanish
forces in the 1500s, Xel - Ha's location on the coast leads is picturesque, but it's also where the sea meets the maze
of underwater rivers and caves as well as carved out lagoons, that makes it a «natural aquarium».
The group launches its contest in the middle
of budget negotiations in Albany, with the hopes that Cuomo and the MTA will be
forced to paint a clearer picture as to how the governor and the transit authority plan to modernize and repair the subway system's
ancient infrastructure.
Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an
ancient and obscure piece
of parliamentary procedure in a bid to
force the move.
Last week, Cuomo made a similar announcement on Long Island, prompting the Port Authority police union to compare the state police to
ancient Rome's «Praetorian Guard,» a private police
force that served at the will
of the Roman emperor.
And in the way
ancient religions worshipped the power
of the sun, wind or sea, we are supposed bow down before the unstoppable power
of market
forces.
In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use
ancient parliamentary rules to
force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects
of both options.
She spoke in LADINO: the
ancient language
of Spain which was brought to other areas
of the world by Jews who were
forced to leave Spain in 1492.