Sentences with phrase «mythology does»

Attempting to stuff bullying, grief, disease, and mythology does little to give any of them weight, doubly so when the characters feel as shallow as they are and the actors feel this limp.

Yet mythology does provide a crucial context for understanding ritual.

The Christian mythology does not stand up well to critical thinking.

Sorry KR, but NOT believing in Bronze Age Palestinean mythology does not make me a fool.

The use of mythology does not bother me with either Tolkien or Lewis, but it REALLY does matter to some people.

In all my life's troubles, I have NEVER sought god as the answer, mainly because I happen to KNOW that mythology does not have the ability to answer prayers, nor the power to change my life.

There are people who spend their entire lives studying Greek mythologies and other theology doctrines (with the notation that most people who study mythologies don't actually believe the fantasy is true).

A book of supernatural tribal mythologies does not mean what it says — it means whatever the believer says it means!

Not exact matches

«Salaries are one of the last great taboos, and like anything that's taboo, once you puncture it and deflate the mythology, it doesn't seem so special anymore.»

Because the image of this farm boy from Smaland — hardworking, thrifty, with all this mythology around him, close to the common folk... the Kamprad sons, who grew up in a very different world, don't represent that at all.

I hope we don't have to wait a century to see today's religion melting into mythology.

While King does sometimes draw on Christian mythology (what Western writer can avoid that?)

If I worked at NASA and insisted that the expedition to Saturn should reveal evidence of the ancient Greek or Roman gods, and kept insisting that the data supported that mythology, I'd expect to be told (first) to stop preaching about it at work, and then get fired if I kept doing it.

We don't need one religions mythology to have good will and generosity towards each other.

Why do you cling to ancient mythology?

In 300 (as long as we don't exterminate ourselves) years no one will believe in your god just as noone believes in mythology today... deal with it.

Find something better to do with your time than to debate ancient christian mythology.

In Ann Rice's mythology, sunlight didn't necessarily kill a vampire unless they were very young, say Claudia and the woman Louie made for her.

It doesn't take any «digging around in the bin», only a familiarity with history and mythologies other than the Jewish and Christian ones.

Mythology isn't reality and the world WO N'T be coming to an end, and omg, I just can't do it any more...

The only one without a mythology is the person who states I don't know.

Believing that universe expanded from something the size of a grain of sand — or even out of nothing — does, indeed, sound like «fairytales and mythology» to me.

your intellect has nothing to do with your «beliefs» in a mythology.

I don't care if you believe a giant turtle upchucked and created the universe — just do NOT legislate or try to legislate based on your mythology.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Atheists should probably get double points for knowing anything about a mythology that they don't adhere to.

What does the God of Christianity have in common with the gods of Norse mythology?

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

It applies not only to the god of the underworld, but also to the underworld itself, and in Greek mythology the souls of those who defied the gods were tortured there, doing things like rolling rocks uphill forever.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

The evil bible book of mythology was written by delusional men that didn't know any better.

So if you are going to buy into the mythology, that doesn't seem like to much of a stretch.

I don't believe in Yahweh or Lucifer, but if you're going to buy into the mythology, are you so sure you have it right?

Some people take Lewis to task for his love and usage of mythology, that doesn't bother me.

How do you know that God is imaginary / pure mythology?

Does that include the mythologies of the Vikings, Indians, Native Americans, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and any other culture that florished before monotheism was thrust upon them at the point of a sword?

If you're not, it's mythology and doen't matter in the least.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

They throw a veil of political, economic, or philosophical considerations around violence, or they create what amounts to a mythology of violence, exalting it into a kind of value (as Sorel does).

Write an article that panders even a bit to religionists, and they come out in droves yapping about how the sky fairy wants us to do good works, and then debating their various versions of mythology.

The better question is what I want her to do and that is find another occupation than peddling mythology.

Accepting the most extraordinary claims imaginable based on nothing more than a collection of this mythology that was cobbled together during the Dark Ages is a pretty foolish thing to do.

@holy: just like most religions / mythologies are all based on faith which doesn't require proof.

I didn't find much mythology about the Musk - Goats as I googled today except humans have loved hunting them and eating them into oblivion forever in spite of their «formidable strength».

Radha is certainly no paragon of the womanly virtues detailed in Hindu texts; nor does she come close to any of the «good» or «bad» mother - goddesses of Indian mythology and religion.

Modern, intelligent people have gone beyond archaic mythology and don't live in a fairytale world of invisible, supernatural beings in the sky.

What you and the author miss is that justifying the first graph of Genesis with this science, does not reconcile the rest of the christian book of mythology.

Did you know that the Chronicles of Narnia were written by Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, and were created as «mythology» to present Christian principles in another form?

Don't forget Reality... the mythology promoted by the Romans was also urged by the Jewish pharisees at the time as a means of keeping the populace subservient to the Roman empire and thus by giving them a martyr.

Thus, Satan could not have «stolen» dominion over the world in the garden — he did not exist in Hebrew mythology at that point.