Sentences with phrase «myth making on»

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They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

If you're making financial and lifestyle choices based on these retirement myths, you could be missing out on benefits that could give you a better future.

There is no historical evidence to support the myth, but it makes for scary stories on rainy English nights, Chain said.

This myth irritates atheists, because it tries to make a virtue out of preying on people's weaknesses in order to sell them a lie.

EvolvedDNA «why is it rude to call you on your myths» = > we can talk about gods of past that were man made but our God is a living God and some of us have a personal relationship with God because of what God has actually done in our lives.

I'd like to add to my last comment that first the myth that darwin became a christian and gave up his own theory is most likely fiction and propaganda for christians to call heresy on a christian boogeyman, but secondly in that myth it says that darwin renounced his own theory on his deathbed, thats what cari believes in refutation, but just because you might disbelieve a theory you came up with doesn't make the theory wrong.

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

Either way, the myth - believers will make up explanations to preserve their fragile grip on reality.

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

For instance, one of the men who hopped on the George Washington myth - making bandwagon was no less than showman P.T. Barnum.

It is all based on fairy tales, made - up stories, myths and downright lies.

Depending on which version of the Genesis creation myth you go with, they were either created together, or Adam was around for a while before God made Eve to keep him company.

Believing in a death myth or the supernatural does not make it real... fanciful stories... of the supernatural are not real... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on how the Christian myth was created from the Jewish one....

Make believe stories on par with Santa Claus and the Greek myths.

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!!

I don't make any claims about the physical earth based solely on religious myths.

Make fun, laugh, heckle this reply / comment if you will, but just remember your banking on it being fake, a lie, a myth, fantasy, lack of intelligence and any other «denials» you can muster up.

The first forty minutes is designed to make you think that religion in general, and specifically the stories about Jesus, are all a myth based on Egyptian astrology.

Perhaps he tells himself it is not just the acid, poetry, orgies, and music that are going to help he and his audience «break on through,» but also the magic of fame, with all its myth - making potential.

It was the Hebrew prophets who first made the break with the myth of origin, and socialism itself can be defined as «prophetism on the soil of an autonomous, self - sufficient world.»

[19] Barfield makes the distinction between Allegory, the hypostatisation (ascribing material existence to) of ideas, and myth; «the true child of Meaning, begotten on imagination.»

No religion could be close to the hearts of the Turks if it condemned reason and relied on myths and superstitions, favored laziness and lethargy instead of encouraging action and enterprise, made man the slave of man, and forced him to worship nature as god.

But along the way, the people who believe in that are going to try to force their stone age myth on the rest of us and make our lives as miserable as possible.

It is striking that Bultmann makes hardly any demands on this language of faith, whereas he was so suspicious about the language of myth.

Would it not make sense to assume that God was whispering to them as well, and that some of their legends, myths, and religious writings are based on what God was whispering to them?

Or any of the other things you believers foist on us using your made up Stone Age myths.

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?

always makes me smile when I see atheists claiming that Jesus is a manufactured myth based on horus.

Myth, on the other hand, seeks to make things demonstrable: «From the mythological standpoint, the event of redemption must be made as evident and demonstrable as anything else in the visible world» (Pfarrerblatt, 1943, p. 4).

The importance of the first two chapters of Genesis (which are quite contradictory) is that they are the creation myths of a prescientific people who were attempting to make sense of the world based on their knowledge, which included the Sun going around the Earth and required supernatural beings as explanations for natural phenomena.

They will be dependent on the ether of Mormonism or some other made up myth made religion.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

Although he accepted the synoptic account of Jesus» teaching as largely authentic, he made no attempt to construct a picture of Jesus from that teaching, and, although he quite properly criticized the element of myth in the gospels, he then went on to replace that dogmatic mythology of the Church with a conceptual mythology of his own.

Moreover, it is natural to any community that it base its very existence and identity on the great myths or stories that narrate how it came into being and what makes it specially significant.

In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.

De Waal Malefijt maintains that myth and ritual are intimately associated, not because either is derived from the other, but because both are based on particular beliefs about the cosmic order.27 A ritual presupposes a world - view, a set of assumptions within which the ritual makes sense.

My mother always made a cherry pie on President's Day as a tribute to George Washington and the myth, now thought to be apocryphal, of him chopping down a cherry tree.

no doubt the papers made up this # 50 million to make the board look bad and tight (both are myths made up by press during the lean years), but they have said in public they will back wenger with the big money on world class purchases, then i believe they will.

The man is a myth, he makes me weak in the knees, I mean no player has ever had this kind of effect on me and I have been a Madridsta since 2003.

There's a lot of myths out there on the topic of choosing your baby's gender — like the idea that drinking orange soda makes boys.

Their mission is to get the evidence from national guidelines and medical literature into the hands of parents, professionals, and providers — to make VBAC accessible to more people based on actual facts, quality information, and current research, rather than conventional wisdom based on myths and misperceptions.

She is getting the information out there that counter-acts the lies, myths, and distortions put forth by the Homebirth «movement», trying to ensure that women are fully informed before they make their choice on place of birth.

If you mistakenly base your birthing decisions on a myth or misunderstanding, you are less likely to make a good decision and less likely to feel satisfied with your childbirth experience.

In a refreshingly candid discussion, he reveals why the «public mood» is a myth, what it's really like on the campaign trail, why the legacy of the MP expenses scandal makes him fear for the future of our democracy, and how Alex Salmond predicted the key role of minor parties almost a decade ago.

Brown makes good use of up - to - date political science research to dispel myths which «strong» leaders often believe of themselves; namely that they have a determining effect on election outcomes and a voter's party affiliation though he notes that obvious discrepancies will exist between parliamentary and presidential systems in these regards.

Perhaps it makes sense to tackle the biggest underlying myth first: the one that says land is a very scarce resource and that we are living on a densely populated island.

Contributing to the myths and misinformation on immigration is a good way of making that eventuality more likely.

Speaking on his LBC programme, Mr Clegg said that he was not going to be able to reverse 20 years of myth making in two hours.

Fuentes» recent books include «Evolution of Human Behavior,» «Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature,» «Conversations on Human Nature (s)» and the forthcoming «The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional.»