Not exact matches
To answer the question whether God is a threat to
human freedom, we must
first ask the question what it is to be free, what the forces are that we must
conquer to attain freedom.
Even the Egyptian sun god at
first was territorial; the sun hymn of the Pyramid Texts represents him as standing guard on Egypt's frontiers; but in the sixteenth century B.C. Thutmose III
conquered the known world and became «the
first character of universal aspects in
human history.»
Brown suggests that forging tools was part of a «behavioural tool kit» that allowed the
first modern
humans to
conquer the world.
The olive plant is so all -
conquering that we'll never know when primitive
humans first grabbed and applied the leaf, perhaps as a last ditch remedy for a wound.