Sentences with phrase «mythical mythological being»
When you are drowning, pray to god to save you and see what happens, while the other guy rescues himself instead of asking some mythical mythological being to do it for him.
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(We may add that if «mythological» means whatever can not be reconciled with the modern scientific view of the world with its closed system of cause and effect, then an eschatological act of God is either no act at all or else it is mythical in the above sense of that word.)
All this is undeniably mythological, and Bultmann thinks it is senseless and impracticable to foist this mythical view of the world on modern man, whose thinking is «shaped for good or ill by modern science».