Sentences with phrase «ancient forces of»

There, he caught a glimpse of its evil ruler, Dormammu, an ancient force of destruction.

In the first Thor movie, Odin calls them «an ancient force of infinite destruction,» so yeah... they're not playthings.

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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.