The fast - paced combat, massive boss fights, and fascinating Greek
mythology make for an incredible experience.
So the fact that there might be one or more actual true statements in a book of
mythology makes the book factual?
Your post is laughable and not allowing a group to marry because of
your mythology makes you a bigot, doesn't matter how you spin it.
The mythology has also been changed from Greek Mythology to Norse
Mythology making for an exciting new world and potential of epic boss battles.
A broad synopsis outlining what we can expect from Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant has been issued by 20th Century Fox, further fueling fan expectation surrounding the the highly anticipated return of the British director to the universe and
mythology he made famous 38 years ago.
One could argue (not without merit, in this writer's opinion) that farms in Age of Empires III and Age of
Mythology made things a little too simple, with their relatively low costs and infinite food supplies.
Not exact matches
The
mythology surrounding ecoterrorism
makes it hard to pin down how much of it actually happens.
The CEO of the southern power giant has
made a pledge of heavy carbon reduction at the BNEF Future of Energy Summit, but the details are murky and contradictory, and wrapped in layers of
mythology.
The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted
mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will
make sense and gain voter support.
Like other myths in Genesis the flood myth borrows from the Sumerians, but with the myth modified to
make it consistent with Jewish
mythology.
Yeah... what could
make more sense than praying to the god of the
mythology of an ignorant Bronze Age tribe?
Mirosal the problem here is that most atheists on this board are so ignorant of the usefulness of our
mythology and others that they
make Christianity look like the better of the two.
In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek
mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «
made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».
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.
Chimeras come from Greek
mythology and were monsters
made up of the different parts of a lion, goat and dragon.
Honest christians would simply declare they entertain this
mythology because it
makes them feel better about themselves and the world, and that if you roll in this
mythology, you can feel better about yourself and your world too.
Now while you may choose to dismiss this, and that's your absolute prerogative, as
mythology and not «true», it is not a belief in a God of my «own
making.»
The majority of the elements that
make up the Christian
Mythology can be grouped in three broad clusters corresponding to the birth, the life, and the death of Jesus of Nazareth.
It has Hades, the Greek god of the underworld in it and it
makes me feel like Greek
mythology that I enjoy to date.
Sorry KR, but NOT believing in Bronze Age Palestinean
mythology does not
make me a fool.
Given that God does not
make mistakes, it has to be that God WANTED us to see at the very onset how God's Word was constructed: To relay spiritual truths through true stories, history,
mythology, prophesy and parables.
As we know from
mythology, it was the habit of Jupiter to wander the earth in the form of man, animal, or bird and thereby
make contact with human beings.
The virgin birth story is
mythology... That is the truth and a fact... or do some of us still not fully understand how babies are
made yet?
They are not unbelievers, these men; but for them the dominions, principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this world have a reality that
makes the difference between ancient and modern
mythologies of little importance.
Pagan
mythology it is, ensconced in our time and embraced in our church, where we have supposed that we can know the glory of immortal God while worshiping also at the altar of our powerful and overwhelmingly impressive national Baal, an image, in the final analysis, simply
made by human minds and hands.
«Elijah's satire in a nutshell is the raciest comment ever
made on Pagan
mythology.»
A philosopher, theologian, scholar of patristics and
mythology, and frequent contributor to First Things, Hart maintains that his dissatisfaction with the standard renderings of the Bible — each the product of committees and therefore of numberless harmful compromises — convinced him of the value of starting from scratch and
making a one - man job of it.
For it seems to me that, despite his equating of myth and
mythology, in the final analysis, his own incurable and inalienable involvement in the Christian mythos impels him to
make a distinction between the two.
Just because the christian bible spurred our ancestors to read doesn't
make their
mythology omportant today.
That
makes sense if one accepts the
mythology of Christianity.
Not everyone needs a million - times - revised - to - suit - the - particular - cultural - mores book to
make them feel like the «characters of spirituality» are well defined, and frankly to many spiritual but not religious types they read like a fairy tale or
mythology.
It's evident that Nemesis — in Greek
mythology the goddess of vengeance, the punisher of hubris and arrogance — is already a visitor in our country, simply biding her time before she
makes her presence known.
It is interesting to note that my discussion with Kamlah did not begin until after I had endeavored to
make the Christian view of life intelligible by removing the
mythology and restating it in existentialist terms.
[11] An example from Tolkien's own great work of
mythology, his Middle Earth Literature [12], would be the decision
made by the elven princess, Arwen, to forgo the immortal life in order to cleave to Aragorn (a man)[13].
The recognition of the kerygmatic character of the gospels, and of the fact that the kerygma was not confined to the historical narratives of the gospels,
made the right interpretation of the
mythology of the New Testament more urgent than it had ever been before.
The mythical thought of the New Testament on the other hand, does reckon with such interferences, and if such thought enshrines a profound and genuine insight into the nature of the human ego, it requires restatement to
make it plain, and that means the complete abandonment of
mythology.
But I object to the ease with which you
make the unreal skandalon — i.e. the
mythology of the New Testament language — the real skandalon.
What is the only thing capable of
making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age
mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:
The US is falling behind other developed countries as it is, but to have
mythology that is no different than Greek or Norse
mythology taught as fact would
make us fall behind even more.
Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or
made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they
made and named as in Greek
mythology...
Beyond that I say relegate it to the pile of man
made mythology and let it go.
The God you deny will hold you accountable and you saying he is
mythology won't
make things better for you.
In the popular
mythology of the time, everyone knew that the purpose of dating around was to find «the right person» because «marriages are
made in heaven.»
If you'd been born in India, you'd be trying to
make an argument for the Hindu pantheon instead because you'd have been brainwashed from birth to believe in THAT
mythology instead of the Christian
mythology.
The very fact that
mythology is only a form
makes it even more imperative to establish the qualitative difference between revelation and religion.
This would be an incredible claim to
make today, but in an age when
mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots, which the original authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the life of Jesus is virtually zero.
Stone recognized that the late Sixties really were a time of living
mythology, of god - creation, and he wanted his film to both take us through that, and indeed
make us complicit in it.
It is because the
mythologies are more
made acceptable because they keep getting taught to our children.
But then I'm not holding my breath — fred has had this same argument time and time again, and has yet to come up with any credible evidence for his particular brand of
make - believe — something so obviously rehashed from older
mythology.
Have we
made too little of the question of
mythology?