Sentences with phrase «not mythology»

For is it not mythology to speak of an act of God as though it were an objective event in which the grace of God encounters man?

Let's discuss these issues with facts, not mythology.

Sadly you also throw around the term «child abuse» with a cavalier looseness that suggests you don't have the foggiest idea what child abuse is... it's a shame abused children everywhere can't write in and tell you about their trevails at the hands of an abuser... Jesus Christ was no abuser... if I'm wrong about Jesus, he was at least a Rabbi who loved his followers, and who taught, peace, compassion, forgiveness, and inclusiveness... If I'm right, Jesus is the most amazing, wonderful gift GOD could ever give to his beloved creation... in either event, belief in him, and sharing those beliefs with children is not abuse, it's loving and nurturing fact based belief, not mythology...

I would like to see a world where humans depended on empathy, and not mythology, to understand how to treat others.

Or, to put it another way, is not mythology an essential element in human thought, and is it not therefore just as valid an approach to reality as, e.g. that of natural science?

I used to believe such things as a devoted Pagan of 2-1/2 decades, until I discovered that Jesus, His death, & His resurrection were historical reality, not mythology.

But, thinks Bultmann, that is not mythology in the traditional sense, not the kind of mythology which has become antiquated with the decay of the mythical world view.

The Bible is not mythology and was never meant to be read as such.

kudlak Exactly because the flood is encountered in so many different and distant civilizations is a great sign that is not a mythology, or at least the mythology was based on real facts.

We should be worrying about the issues we face today not mythology from a couple thousand years ago.

Its not mythology.

not the mythologies of the dark ages.

@wow Doesn't your mythology say men were fashioned from clay and dirt while woman spring forth from a rib?

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.

Thanos threatens to not only destroy life on Earth but also, in a meta sense, shatter everything Marvel has built since 2008: its characters, its many worlds, and its wide - ranging mythology.

But this mythology is based on false analogies, not economic reality.

That big bang stuff is a THEORY not a FACT so you can not prove your big bang either, so isnt that mythology as well?

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

I think there is a huge difference between bringing real world actual experiences to a government / judicial decision and bringing biases based on a cult's unproven tribal mythology, not to mention 1st amendment considerations.

wiki,»... Unicorns are not found in Greek mythology, but rather in accounts of natural history, for Greek writers of natural history were convinced of the reality of the unicorn,...»

Some dude claiming to be the son of an unproven god, and others believing that and his resurrection, without any supporting evidence is mythology, if not mental illness.

My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

You can not use mythology to prove a point, you can only use facts and logical deductions therefrom.

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!! It's a shame Roy Moore, etal., can't see the truth in what you say, but rather try to explain away the contradictions and archaic thought and practices of Jewish mythology.

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

Let's not say anything that would be inconvenient for Kaufmann's trans - ideological «isolationist» angle, nor for Rock's own 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.

Steve wrote,» That big bang stuff is a THEORY not a FACT so you can not prove your big bang either, so isnt that mythology as well?

Also I disagree with the commit eariler that we shouldn't teach mythology in school, it's still learning.

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.

Not the fantastic imagery and mythology ment to illustrate a point or demonstrate a principle, but the rock bottom basic teachings.

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 moreN'T be coming to an end, and omg, I just can't do it any more...

Perhaps you're not Evangel / Baptist but for those of these sects, it fits their mythology.

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

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

This is the whole problem... people who can not decipher fact from fantasy are trying to run a secular world with their mythology and voodoo.

Of course there isn't a shred of proof that the bible is any more true than any other mythology.

People need to break free of the indoctrination into fantasy land and use logic and reason as their guide, not 2000 (and more) year old mythology.

Let's base 21st Century social policy on some totally discredited Bronze Age Middle Eastern mythology that is not even original to the Christian religion we hope to foster by it.

Well, any more than we know that any of the mythologies of ancient people's isn't an accurate account of their histories, right?

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.

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.

I used to wonder how people bought into the Bible and the Abrahamic religions, but after watching the spread of the Mormon agenda — and let's be honest, it is an agenda — I realized that people are desparately frightened of living in a world they can't explain without magic, mythology, or voodoo.

You can not teach by mythology.