Sentences with phrase «angry deity»

When an undertaking in which a whole nation is concerned is hindered, when such an enterprise is brought to a standstill by the disfavor of heaven, when the angry deity sends a calm which mocks all efforts, when the seer performs his heavy task and proclaims that deity demands a young maiden as a sacrifice — then will the father heroically make the sacrifice.

No god has helped the human race, and your «holy text» is filled with the temper tantrums of a childish, petulant, angry deity who warrants and endorses atrocities upon those who do not «believe».

Our biologists have catalogued the species of life on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.

There is an angry deity in this equation, and it is us, in whose midst God, quite without violence, manifests the depth of his forgiving love by plumbing the depths of, and thus defanging, our violence (Alison, We didn't invent sacrifice).

To «re-enact» the sacrifice where an ancient angry deity required his son to die, so he could feel better?

We know that earthquakes and thunderstorms are not caused by an angry deity.

Between threats of war and angry Deities, Harvey and friends begin a series of quests that will determine the very fate of Asdivine...

Not exact matches

Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the gods who are angry with us.

Like lying about others because they don't buy into your nasty, angry, jealous deity and his book of nonsense?

The point I just wanted to make is that I do not believe my God is the «Hand of an Angry God» deity but, for those that do believe that God operates as such this month has given them prime usable examples.

No, an atheist can be angry if they feel something goes against current law and none of it has to involve any deity.

So if we believe in an angry, vengeful deity, we are likely to behave in angry, vengeful ways.

When things begin to go horribly wrong for them, Brenda is sure they are being punished for transgressing against their deities, while Frank questions not only why the gods would be angry about something like that, but whether or not there really is anything outside the sliding glass doors.

Spiritual: Bargaining with a deity to prevent loss, feeling angry at ones deity when a loss occurs, renewed or shaken religious belief, feelings of being blessed or punished, searching for a meaningful explanation of a loved ones death, visions or dreams concerning a dead loved one, questioning whether or not souls exist, finding a purposeful way to say goodbye (funeral, memorial service, goodbye service)

In a secret outpost in North Africa, the Axis are hatching a Pyramid Scheme to steal the vast power of an ancient — and ANGRY — Egyptian deity.

A dispassionate view of eugenics, ecology, and environmentalism over the last century reveals less serious science and more angry religion full of pagan deities.