Sentences with phrase «myths of»

The human reality corresponding to the myths of Ahriman's choice and Lucifer's downfall, writes Buber, can only be understood through our own observations, supplemented by historical and biographical literature.

To this latter class belong the Jewish and Zoroastrian myths of the origin of evil which Buber uses to illustrate his anthropological treatment of good and evil.

Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.

In transcending the Near Eastern myths of immanent godhead, they [the Hebrews] created... the new myth of the will of God.

The creation myths of all religions are proven to be incorrect by modern science.

If they are truly One, then the total character of God can be seen in Christ, and the incarnation was the revelation of who the One true God really is, thereby shattering all the myths of a God of war that prevailed in the Hebrew tradition.

If this inquiry is to be successful, says Buber, it must make use of the truth found in the myths of the origin of evil.

- Stories vs. HistoryBesides all of this, the myths of the ancient world were never based on solid historical fact.

People are finally understanding that religion is all man made, just like the Mormon myths of golden tablets and ancient Mormons in South America.

Whether it will be shared depends upon how successful we are in penetrating the myths of development strategies that have failed in the recent past — and how effectively we counter the masters of triage.

we will forever be haunted by the myths of religion, a true curse on mankind.

You are pretending that your childish beliefs in the myths of ancient goat - herders is infallible truth.

Celebrate the Season, Forego the Myths of Muslims!

I also enjoy learning about the creation myths of other cultures.

We do care very much for you and your 1.5 billion Muslim sisters and brothers who unfortunately have been brainwashed in the myths of Islam for 1400 years.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

The only «science» conservatives believe in comes from the endlessly re-interpreted myths of ignorant desert nomads over 2000 years ago.

Very much unlike the myths of the greek or nordic tales.

First, I have done some reading into the myths of Osiris, Dionysus, and some of the other mythical parallels, and to be honest, I can't find many of the matching details that supposedly exist.

All societies that we know of have myths of origin, usually involving God or the gods.

That being said, however, for at least the short - term future most American children will be attending public schools dominated by the myths of neutrality toward the differences that make the deepest difference.

According to Eliade, the great eschatological myths of Asia - Mediterranean world and millennialist structures underlie Marxism.

You preach myths of a man who never existed, son of a god who doesn't exist, and even that god is a son of another god that doesn't exist.

Just compare A & E with the myths of Prometheus and Pandora.

There is no evidence outside of religious texts and our modern knowledge shows that the creation myths of all religions are not correct, so as their foundational texts are incorrect, religions offer nothing to support the idea of a god.

Conspiratorial strands certainly pervade our myths of origins.

It is probable that Hesiod intended to record a peculiarly Greek synthesis of the myths of the Olympian deities with the myths of pre-historic Hellas.

Stoic morality, Plato's language of the Good, Aristotle's metaphysics of act and potency — all became richer and more coherent when emancipated from the morbid myths of sacrificial economy and tragic necessity.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

The rites and myths of the contemporary pagan cults afford impressive materials for comparison, and they undoubtedly had an influence on the later development of the Christian sacrament.

When one looks at the myths of surrounding cultures, in fact, one senses that the current debate over creationism would have seemed very strange, if not unintelligible, to the writers and readers of Genesis.

By the way, both Satan and Santa are myths of the human mind, and whose «color» is determined only by the fantasy of those who embrace the cherished myths of Santa and Satan.

When things get messy, when the ground drops out from under us, we conjure myths of pristine and happy origins.

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of angelic» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

His first two novels, Desperadoes and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, are inventive retellings of myths of the American West.

The symbols, concepts, images, stories and myths of Christian origin, which remain deeply embedded in the fabric of western culture, will continue to offer the raw material from which people form their understanding of life, develop their capacity for spirituality and experience satisfaction at the deepest levels.

Among the biblical myths of human origin, two are particularly relevant to the problems raised by globalization.

This problem persisted, he said, «until I studied a course in Bible in which I came to see that behind the legends and myths of the Book were many profound truths which one could not escape.»

There is just as much validity in the bible as there is in the Egyptian myths of Horus.

As I said evolution, big bang, etc. cover the creation myths of all religions.

Big Bang, cosmology in general, evolution, geology, and many more prove that the creation myths of all religions are incorrect.

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

Analogous steps are available at your request for deprogramming the myths of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Paganism..

Jesus is the «true myth» (with the emphasis on true) which proves the validity of many of the themes and longings of men's hearts which are found in the pagan myths of other religions.

@Santa I couldn't let this one liner of yours pass «If there were a god it would be pre-Big Bang which invalidates the creation myths of all religions»

If there were a god it would be pre-Big Bang which invalidates the creation myths of all religions

You fall into the one of the Big Myths of right - wing Christians: that there are born - again - Christians and Atheists.

And you're right, the Momrmons did out - score every other Christian denomination... but guess who scored highest... the Atheists... the more we study it, the more we can't believe that people actually fall for the myths of the super-natural.

As has been pointed out to you countless times, science has shown that the biblical myths of creation and life are not true — they are simply stories invented to satisfy an ignorant populace.

There is really no problem making fun of any of you, all of you are following myths of some bronze age goat herders, and some of you believe those stories are the literal truth.