Sentences with phrase «known as myth»
Its not science, its religion or otherwise known as myth.
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But, as far as we know, there isn't much myth around that.
NORTHERN I think you do not know the meaning of myth as used on some Bible stories.
As any student of Comparative Mythology knows, the Garden myth in Genesis was taken from the Sumerian Chaos myths, and was a HUMAN attempt to explain «disorder».
Lastly, the authors of the greek myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were as real to them as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.
@chuckles «Lastly, the authors of the greek myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were as real to them as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.
No but they do disprove the creation myth used as the credentials for gods — without those credentials what other evidence do you have?
I know the Jesus of the Bible exists in myth and legend, but as for a man - god who died and rose from the dead - seriously?
As a freethinker I am now no longer satisfied with mere assertions, with creative rehashings of myth.
And if all of that could indisputably and unquestionably be verified as historical fiction, if it could be undeniably proven that the Bible is a myth, then you know what I would do?
The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.
@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.
The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.
If God is based on the same stuff as Jupiter, Horus and Baal, than he's still a myth no matter how much later believers needs and «understanding» develop him, right?
Do you not see that the peace which you no longer dare to hope for (when you do not actually scorn it as a myth) is possible and indeed certain, provided you will grasp what the word «peace» means and what it requires of you?
What we mean here is myth in its everyday, nontechnical sense as understood by you and me: a story that is told as if it were literally true, but which is no longer accepted as factual, and which explains or symbolizes a belief or insight.
(CNN)- It's Christmas, but not as you know it: a new book by released this week by Pope Benedict VI looks at the early life of Jesus - and debunks several myths about how the Nativity really unfolded.
We now know, among many other things, that diseases are not cause by demons as jesus and other myth belivers taught.
Darwin withheld his theory for decades to avoid the furore that he knew it would bring as it challenged the power and privilege of the church — the church makes a lot of money from pushing this myth.
No I do not (and it's a fair point), but I do insult idiots who try to «sell» myth as science — it's truly insulting... and damaging to the youth of this country who are taught this absolute distortion of the truth
Not what u see on CNN, not what your mum said nor your pastor or priest said and not what u see some Muslims neighbors of yours do... noooo nay,,, what have u searched your self... i dare u do... find the true, i swear nothing makes any sense as Islam does, those guys know the whole truth... even if it will hurt, just like Santa - clause when u 12 year or the rats that gives money to the de toothing kid in our Ugandan myth, u deserve to know the truth... and if no scientist has come out and disproved the divine origin of this universe logically then there must be a mighty some one behind it and that Creator or whatever it is, HE has a way, a straight path to Him and we are obliged to know it... so my adverse to u is look hard for the true coz it is clear from false, even if u may hate it!!
The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.
Christianity is no different, as Colin said, they even stole other myths from other cultures.
He writes concerning them: «We are dealing here, as Plato already knew, with truths such as can be communicated adequately to the generality of mankind only in the form of myths.»
This similarity between mythical thinking and the I - Thou relation is made explicit through Professor (and Mrs.) Frankfort's use of Buber's distinction between I - It and I - Thou, their identification of myth with the dynamically reciprocal I - Thou relation in which every faculty of man is involved, and their recognition of the unique and unpredictable character of the Thou — «a presence known only in so far as it reveals itself.»
Chomsky brings up the annihilation of the American indigenous population» are we to call what was done to them, in service of the foundational myth known as Manifest Destiny, something radically different from the logic of sacrificial violence?
Now with regard to the atheist billboard, it is not trying to convert anyone — it's urging those that already know the christmas story is a myth to openly recognize it as such.
Your ancient myth known as Christianity is collapsing.
Everybody wants to do what is right in their own eyes and frankly, I am growing weary of media statements that suggest «well, everybody knows that the Bible is just a book of myths and that it's irrelevant, etc.» as though everyone accepts this as understood.
Other creation myths have their object formed out of created things (i.e. they are made of physical matter known to man) where as God has never been seen which is true to this day.
Ian Barbour has argued that we no longer live as much by myth as by models.
On the contrary it was concerned with the destiny of the whole of the cosmos as then known, and attempted in the medium of myth, to discern its purpose, or end.
CNN: Pope's book on Jesus debunks Christmas myths It's Christmas, but not as you know it: a new book by released this week by Pope Benedict VI looks at the early life of Jesus — and debunks several myths about how the Nativity really unfolded.
But we do know that over time a bewildering plurality of human cultures has evolved, as the Tower of Babel myth symbolically describes.
The creation myth in Genesis states this symbolically — the expulsion from Eden was the result of eating the fruit of a tree which made men «as gods, knowing good and evil» (Gen. 3:5).
@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» @hippypoet «See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to» @Chad «exactly»
@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to.
A popular guest on radio and TV talk shows, she is known for her flamboyant critiques of American society, such as The Beauty Myth, an attack on the standards of beauty imposed on women.
@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly»
Basically, the Bible is more immoral than moral (Leviticus 20:10 - 27; Exodus 22:18; Judges 11:30 - 40; II Samuel 12:9 - 18; Numbers 31:17; Luke 19:22 - 31; and according to the myth, God, the creator and most powerful thing ever, let his son be killed when a simple «timeout» would have been sufficient), and we'll all be better off when the Christian / Jewish / Islamic gods and stories are viewed as myths, just as today we know Zeus, Apollo, Ra, Thor, Buddha, etc. are myths.
If they did, they would know that most of the pious myths handed down are recognized as such by the most involved parties in the major religions.
Stone's sympathies going into the film were perhaps with that expedition, rooting for it, trying to pinpoint where things went wrong so as to pick up the gauntlet; but whether he knew it initially or not, he found that the subject matter forced him to present the myth's failure.
For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.
Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?
And once we do so we need no longer envisage our own myths, hopes and intuitions of ultimate meaning as extra-natural occurrences.
Do you actually know anything about the Catholicism you dismiss as so much «religious myth»?
We do the math to know the soul: It's not a myth, it's an abacus thanks to which resolving this complexity's as easy as one, two, three.