Sentences with phrase «myth than truth»

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Myths, like the so - called «disincentives» to work in programs that ensure basic living standards, and half - truths like Trump's «infrastructure plan,» which amounts to little more than tax giveaways to Wall Street that the CBO says will not meaningfully increase infrastructure investment.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

Speaking of a «true myth» may catch attention, but it is also misleading for most people, suggesting that the truth in the myth is something less than really true.

At Advent, it begins again: the cycle by which God breaks through the clutter of our lives to announce to us that the Presence is very near, irrupting into our midst, hauling us out of our myths, our half - truths and the ways we have settled for what is religious rather than what is holy, alive and real.

I think that God may have been whispering His truth to other cultures and generations than just the Jewish one, so that when Jesus came, He could be seen as the fulfillment of their hopes, dreams, and myths.

By the way, calling it a myth should be no more offensive than calling it truth.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

Instead they are creating a façade of myths and half - truths for purposes of justifying their ideological stand of «holier than thou:» and this has totally confused the voter.

While ordinary theologians can not conceive that ontological truth would be accessible in forms other than metaphor, myth and symbol, scientist - theologians tend to be dissatisfied with anything less than relatively straightforward concepts that can claim truth.

The myths of the God of Israel aren't particularly good (and are sometimes appalling), so they tend to be scrapped rather than rehabilitated for the bits of truth they may have in them.

In truth the Roman and greek myths are more historically accurate than the bible.

The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts at understnding the meanings.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

If doctrine and theology result in division for the sake of truth than that is right «For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths» (2 Timothy 4:3 - 4).

you would prefer that people buy into the whole «Jesus as myth» rather than actually know the truth?

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

The truth: As in myth # 1, low self esteem in children from single parent homes is liable to stem from the economic hardship sometimes associated with such homes, rather than the method of parenting or how many people are available to provide such parenting.

Whilst the myth may be «union power» swaying leadership elections, the truth is that MPs exert too much power over the process (why should they be more important than councillors etc).

Your Party gains from the myth that it cares more about healthcare than other parties, and loses from the truth that it's less exacting than them about welfare claimants.

This myth, from the Iwaidja people of northwestern Australia, has more than a grain of truth, for the peopling and language origins of Australia are closely entwined, says linguist Nicholas Evans of Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Riva has had type 1 diabetes for more than 40 years and is the author of «Diabetes Do's & How - To's,» «50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: and the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It» and «The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes.»

But, when you're know the difference between the myths and the truth, you will notice that cougar dating is similar than normal dating.

«Now I see that the tale told in The Homeric Hymn is more of an ongoing truth than a myth,» Coffey writes in an essay included with the exhibition, and it's worth wondering if the opposite will ever be true.

At a time when corporate reformists are more interested in making money off of education than actually attempting to improve educational quality for all students, books like this are critical in helping us decipher the truth from the perpetual myths that have become the bedrock of the reform movement.

There are myths and unfounded stereotypes which portray gifted individuals as having an easy, successful life because they were blessed with being smart — nothing is further from the truth than this fallacy.

A thousand years after our 21st century civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a lost world.

To me, sharing an uncomfortable truth is better than perpetuating a myth.

@Stephen, of course, there are times when having a mortgage is better than renting, but in a place that people come to to learn good investing / money advice, it's best not to repeat the myths as if they are truth.

Nothing could be further from the truth than this old myth.

Though the island may be shrouded in myth, the group quickly discovers that there is a lot more truth to these legends than first thought.

Of course, «the truth,» according to Inhofe, is that climate change is a myth: «The science is still out on what effect CO2 might have in terms of what they call global warming and the science is more on our side than on their side.»

When you've got an educational system that is weak in teaching science, myths are going to win out over truth more often than not.

If you believe in truth in posting, Mr. Bickmore, rather than continuing to repeat this particular Mannian myth ™, you would do well to arm yourself with some facts.

The current situation for the climate sciences has been described as «a struggle about the truth of the state of climate» (Romm 2010), and a number of books even claim that climate science myths have been introduced to society in a distorted way, causing more confusion than enlightenment (Oreskes and Conway 2008; Gelbspan 1997; Hoggan et al. 2009; Mooney 2006).

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In reality, many myths surrounding recruitment have much less truth than you'd think.

In any case, it's important to undertake an examination and to look for intimacy and truth rather than settle for myths.

But underlying the art, we need methods built on the truth of what couples need to succeed, rather than those based in myths patched together out of stereotypes.