Sentences with phrase «angry gods»

We could agree that there is thunder and lightening, but disagree about whether it represented the meeting of cool and warm air, or angry gods seeking vengeance.

Find me a peer - reviewed paper that attributes earthquakes to angry Gods!

Played by none other than All - Star Tobuscus himself (you know, I never even knew the guy existed before this), we'll get to see him guide Crom in his quest to avenge his wife Alena and fight angry gods, demons, and creatures that stand in his way.

First, he had to deal with a few angry gods from his own pantheon.

It is sometimes intellectually difficult to imagine crowds and throngs of people praying for rain and sacrificing virgins to angry gods, but how willingly politicos and pundits prostrate themselves before the Shamans of the Gates Foundation, The Broad, the Waltons.

A decade - long war with a huge cast characters and angry Gods is not something that people would probably go for.

Ancient Japanese blamed earthquakes on the angry gods.

What if an ancient religion asks for permission to throw a virgin into a volcano to appease the angry gods?

Atheists worship themselves as tiny, angry gods, knowing it all and sending religious believers to secular damnation.

THEY thought they had to «do» sacrifices to make the sun come up in the morning, and to please angry gods (etc.) WE test bacteria for sensitivity to various antibiotics, (etc.) The difference can not be over estimated.

People of faith thought that volcanoes were caused by angry gods.

The leaders within organized religions have made people believe in images of angry gods demanding all sorts of sacrifices «as no one can live up to what that image wants of us».

If god * had * to sacrifice his son to appease himself, according to some «angry gods» paradigm, then he was not in control of the paradigm, and could not have been it's creator.

People believed earthquakes were caused by angry gods, not shifting tectonic plates in the Earth's surface.

It smacks of times when humans were fearful of the natural world and imagined angry gods behind every natural event..

At least «god is love» is an advance from the ancient «angry gods» paradigm, where they require sacrifices, to gain their favor.

And peace and love to all the angry God bashers out there, Im praying for you if you like it or not.

They found that the poorest Americans were most likely to believe in the last, the angriest God.

This is a religion based on an angry god who's going to put most of the people on this Earth in Hell for eternity.

The bible is no exception with its jealous, angry God laying waste to an entire planet, saving only his favorite.

And that there is a day coming when he's going to pull that curtain back and you're going to see an angry God staring down at you.

What a vindictive angry god you have.

This guy sincerely believes in an angry god who burns people.

Long's reasoning is certainly in keeping with images of the angry God of Mt. Sinai.

God can get angry but he is not an angry God.

Yes, Jesus died a violent death, but it was not to satisfy an angry God.

He was an angry God and hard to please.

Are you speaking more of a John Edward s «Hands of an Angry God» type of sermon?

But if covenant also describes a state - ment of historical fact» as Jews and Christians have been inclined to believe» then poor behavior may make for an angry God, but it does not retroactively annul what happened on Sinai or Pentecost.

This analogy should only be used if it is clear that the concentration camp commandant is not an example of an angry God the Father but of the devil - it is the devil and evil and sin that causes Jesus's suffering not (directly) God.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

The miracle is that this weeping, angry God still graces us to hope and to labor for peace.

If only born - again Christians go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands of angry God.

We are sinners in the hands of an angry God, and there is nothing we can do to appease Him!

It was a horrible natural disaster and it would not be the only time that ancient people would blame such an event on an angry god.

If Jesus is any guide, we are not sinners in the hands of an angry God, but are children facing the wrath of angry sin.

This comes from Jonathan Edward's famous sermons, «Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.»

Do we really need to be protected from an angry God, or from ourselves?

College students, introduced to Edwards via other routes than the sermon on «Sinners in the hands of an angry God,» can set Phyllis McGinley right.

If you will read again «Sinners in the hands of an angry God» you will note that the emphasis lies not on hell but on the terrible uncertainty of life.

Old vs New testament, angry god vs loving god.

We know now that lighting and earthquakes are the sign of a living world, not the sign of an angry god.

When most people read the laws that are recorded in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, they see an angry god who wants blood.

Personally I think that the angry God came from ancient thinking where the harshness of nature (red in tooth and claw!)

Edwards» «angry God» became progressively more user - friendly through the ensuing centuries, culminating with Billy Graham, who could play amicable golf with people whom earlier revivalists would have threatened with fire and brimstone.

They are God's servants who punish criminals to show how angry God is.

Of course we must follow Jesus — its just not as simple as a peaceful God or an angry God.

This necessary distance in personal relations does not prove that we are sinners under the curse of an angry God.

So we have a new Troll named † In God We Trust † Cap'n Sayin Atheism Isn't an Angry God Trust Pervert — the moniker becomes more unwieldy by the day!

This is a Puritan sermon, and I don't think there's been any sermon in the history of America that has more shaped our collective religious imagination than «Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.»