Sentences with phrase «but ancient mythology»

ALL religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by primitive people in order to try and explain existence, comfort people in the face of their mortality and keep people in line.

All religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by members of primitive cultures.

Not exact matches

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

I believe the same rationalization that leads one to recognize the well - intended, but mistaken, attempts to explain the world through ancient mythologies also leads one to realize we must work together and help one another.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

WASP, all religions are based on ancient mythologies, but there really are Christians and other religions.

Everyone has beliefs, but not everyone bases their beliefs on imaginary beings or ancient books of mythology.

They are not unbelievers, these men; but for them the dominions, principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this world have a reality that makes the difference between ancient and modern mythologies of little importance.

The LORD was in the early stages described as if He were the storm - god, or even the war - god, but these are but the remnants of ancient mythology.

It is true that the King James bible is referenced in a good deal of pre 20th century literature, but so was ancient Roman / Greek mythology.

What should convince anyone that ancient mythology is anything but just that?

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

As such, it is interesting as one in the growing collections of ancient mythologies, but it is now irrelevant, if not also aesthetically and theologically unpalatable.

Girard shows how this theme is found everywhere in ancient mythology and religious writings, but how only the Hebrew Scriptures begin to reveal that the third party, upon whom blame was laid for the original violence, was really an innocent scapegoat.

Sorry, but that's just a bunch of blah blah blah blah blah, meaningless nonsense from an ancient book of mythology.

But the new monikers also draw inspiration from ancient mythologies and historical star names from indigenous cultures around the world, including in China, Australia and southern Africa.

However, The Great Wall (as evidenced by the teaser trailer, above) imagines a different, more fantastical explanation for the massive construction: A battle fortress created to repel not human invaders, but an attack by rampaging monsters of ancient Chinese mythology.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

Such rumors are rooted in folklore and ancient mythology, but there's one story you've likely heard about black cats and dogs that's true: They're the last to be adopted and the first to be euthanized.

We don't see many games based on this mythology, but this all might change after SCEA's latest game, which puts you smack down the middle of ancient Greece in God of War for the PS2.