Sentences with phrase «fairy tales told»

The holidays are a festive time of fun and fantastical fairy tales told to young people, which explain the windfall of riches bestowed upon them.

Drawing on their forthcoming book Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights published by Fuel, the commission includes original etchings of modern - day fairy tales told in poetry and illustrated with intricate, fantastical drawings.

Ransom, we are not the ones who believe, as adults, the fairy tales told to children to scare them into believing..

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

In their employment of considerable fantasy — I am thinking now of those that expose childhood sexual abuse and the like — these narratives resemble fairy tales told in the first person.

This fairy tale told through the comedic skill of director Rob Reiner has become a classic love story.

Fairy tales tell children that....

Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.»

Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword is nothing but a fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

It's still that a dark and forbidding fairy tale told that worked so well on the 3DS.

«The Shape of Water» is many things — a visionary act of production design, a fairy tale told by a masterful genre junkie — but fundamentally, to me, it's a beauty - and - the - beast tale in which the beauty is a soulful, ferocious mute sprite played with a Chaplinesque twinkle by Sally Hawkins and the beast is... a reptile - man with almost nothing in the way of characteristics.

Fargo's fourth episode opens with Billy Bob Thornton reading Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic fairy tale told primarily through musical expression and voice - over narration.

Rhinoceros Eyes is a lovely, dark fairy tale told in unembarrassed allegory with verve and intelligence.

It is presented as a fairy tale told to children, so it makes some amount of sense that its narrative would be relatively simple, but even considering that, the script of

A humorously fractured fairy tale tells the story of Goldilocks.

Our policy agenda is a difficult sale to many on the Right given their conviction that global warming is — at best — a wildly overwrought problem and — at worst — a fairy tale told by a corrupted scientific community for those that want to shut - down modern industrial capitalism.

Not exact matches

# 2: They acknowledge the debt, but tell themselves fairy tales that it doesn't matter... or that the government is going to somehow «fix» it.

Before I ever wrote my first book I was a story - teller; I created the fairy - tale story and would gather friends together and tell my story to them.

@ stjdsj — So please tell me who will be in heaven, only «certain» Christians according to your silly book of fairy tales?

To tell someone that they deserve to go where the worst people in the world go when they die is still insulting, even if you're rational enough to know such a place is a fairy tale.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

In view of the number of specific prophetic events that were fortold and have come about exactly as fortold, your position requires more faith to believe it is a fairy tale than mine to believe that there is someone (God) who knows the future and told us the future.

But if your priest told you that, I'm sure you'll hang onto that fairy tale, too.

As far as unicorns go, there could have been some mutant horses 10000 years ago that a few people saw and told their fellow cavement about but Chief Ragnar laughed and then it became fairy tales.

You use cellphones, fly in airplanes, and can browse the entire world from your desk, but you still believe in the stupidest fairy - tale ever told.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

Still amazes me how people are so willing to follow an idea, a religion, a dude telling fairy tales from a stage, rather than the things that they see before them every day, and in doing so, tie everyday natural occurrences into evidence for the validity of their fairy tales.

If you cant be a good person without some fairy tale character telling you what to do... then there's little hope for you either way.

at the end of the day i'd rather have an agnostic or atheist as president than someone who believes in some fairy tale, or thinks that god tells people what to do, or that religion is necessary for morals.

If you can't tell what is right and wrong without relying on your fairy tale, I feel nothing but pity for you.

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner:: Buechner is another perennial favourite of mine but this one somehow escaped my notice for many a year.

The right to religious freedom includes the right to not believe the fairy tale and this Ohio state native lived in Utah for almost 20 years and I'm telling you, my fellow Americans, you DO NOT WANT a Mormon in the White House, even if you are also a religious nut.

Hawking would have looked smarter if he had indicated he had done some serious and balanced philosophical reading: something more articulate than carping it's all a «fairy tale,» which doesn't tell me anything except he's dismissive and has nothing substantive to say.

I do not mean by this that the gospel is merely a «fairy - tale,» although it is, of course, true that such tales are often told in language of that kind.

-- Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

It is up to us whether we wish to make any application to our life from a fairy tale, or simply enjoy the fantastic events it tells about [p. 8].

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

Because someone dear to the beliver told them this fairy tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion is fictional tall tales because they think, most likely their parents would tell them something that isn't bogus but it is.

Why don't you figure out why so many people tell you fairy tales about your heritage in the Bible.

In the same way «once upon a time» tells us to expect a fairy tale and «here is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Atheists have a strong interest in the religious — new atheists are interested in converting those that believe in fairy tales to non-believers and others of us well have an interest in the groups that are into telling us we are not real people.

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

It's easy to let your mind go numb and just be told what to think but it's a lot more rewarding when you can actually let you mind go free and live your own life and not worry about fairy tales.

Tell me then, why do you waste your time refuting a fairy tale?

The government should not and is not trying to tell the Church what fairy tales it can tell their congregation.

And, as might befit a teenaged church, Bigelow Methodist is described in the fairy tale of Briar Rose, here told by the brothers Grimm, translated by Francis Magoun and Alexander Knappe: