Sentences with phrase «of ancient superstitions»

Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions, and the adoption of industry and invention.

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That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

God can no longer be present in a Temple that has ceased to be a place of encounter, the «meeting tent» of the ancient Hebrews; that Temple, however magnificently constructed, had become a place of superstition and self - interest.

Science and technology have brought us far beyond the superstitions of ancient civilizations.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

That is a bronze age superstition common to all religions of ancient times and many fundamentalist Neanderthals today.

He (or she, or they, or it) may exist; there is certainly evidence that suggests the existence of intelligent design; but until we have better evidence to determine this issue, I suggest we not jump to conclusions and accept the superstitions of ancient peoples regarding this issue.

He ignores obvious reality in favor of a book of ancient Middle Eastern peasant superstitions.

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

In that confident era the last thing the world needed was an ancient, archaic, medieval church that seemed to many of the enlightened generation to traffic in magic and superstition.

You make a lot of assertions, but can not provide any support beyond a book of ancient tribal superstitions, one of many such books (that all say very different things about Gods and morals).

«It is always best to recognize the insanity of total morons who believe that the truth only comes from ancient peasant superstitions from the Middle East»

Very very funny piece of hypocrisy coming from someone who lets an ancient book of Middle Eastern peasant superstitions do his thinking for him.

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

The American founders were not, like many of the ancient founders, acting from a position of command, able to compel acceptance of the Constitution by physical force or by manipulation of superstition.

He covers science, symbolism and superstition surrounding the heart, from mummification in ancient Egypt to Leonardo da Vinci's exploratory dissections and the medical advances of the Atomic Age.

With a good command of the English and French languages, my research interests have been particularly focused on Cultural Studies (Folk Culture, Mythology, Ancient lore, Superstition and Popular Beliefs, Life After Death... [Read more...]

Many of the people who live in Yucatan are descended from the Mayans, and while today most of them have converted to Christianity and done away with that crazy ball game, they still hold onto some of their ancient civilization's culture and superstitions.

«A reformulation of ancient mythologies that merged together become part of my artwork in conjunction with my personal experience of the sacred through mythical stories, traditions and legends, rituals, superstitions and intuitive revelations.

Absent respect for the teachings of the scientific method all we're left with is the casting of chicken bones and the ancient science of astrology to overcome superstition and ignorance through knowledge.