Sentences with phrase «of old myths»

Too bad that there are so many (the uneducated majority) closed - minded true believers of old myths out there.

Nevertheless, I've recently seen some of the old myths peddled by «climate skeptics» pop up again.

Not everything in it is a masterpiece, but among its 95 prints are stunning portraits of actors, geishas and warriors; colorful retellings of old myths; views of contemporary urban life; and gorgeous, poetically captivating landscapes.

The modern - day updates of these old myths are minor and not particularly imaginative — Coogan plays Hades as a strutting Alice Cooper type, while Percy uses the reflective surface of an iPhone as a mirror to avoid looking Medusa in the eye — but at least Riordan's books have a rich background to serve as source material for the story's chases and swordfights.

Despite major advancements in nutrition science, there is still a bunch of old myths that don't seem to be going anywhere and you may have unknowingly adopted many of these.

To be perfectly blunt, the «other side» of this issue is nothing more than a collection of old myths and deliberately deceptive research that's utterly undeserving of recognition (except perhaps in the context of a discussion about modern - day quackery or the like).

I studied the bible intensely for almost 50 years; it is a collection of old myths that nobody should take seriously....

You also seem to not realize that much of science fiction is just a reimagining of the old myths set in some future time.

You get together and try to make sense of the Christian bible, as if it were a guidebook for living instead of a motley collection of old myths, political writing, poetry, and history.

The Bible is just a disjointed collection of old myths, I have as much faith in it as the next Ponzi scheme.

Some, like Noah's Ark, are actually just retellings of older myths.

Thus, «some scholars have argued that the story is either a historicized version of an older myth,» David Montgomery explains in a related Perspective, «or propaganda to justify the centralized power of imperial rule.»

I was a little surprised to hear this, since this is one of the oldest myths related to vegetarianism and was disproved long ago.

Her full account of his place in Italian visual culture, and of his relationship to fascist politics, corrects some of the older myths about his life, but does not, I think, in itself inspire revisionist commentary.

Not exact matches

Keith Fix is the kind of customer that mobile service providers dream about and believe exists only in myth: a tech - savvy 20 - year - old who runs his own business.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

One of the myths about older workers that may need to be dispelled is that they don't seek work flexibility as much as their younger counterparts — a concept that research has increasingly debunked.

I respect and admire almost all of the Mormons I've met, I just can't wrap my mind around the founding myths — something about magic stones named Throbbing and Vermin... but then again that isn't half as crazy as some of the Old Testament stuff.

Just like we don't allow children to drink, to drive, to get married, etc until the age of 16, 18, or 21 depending on culture, we should not be forcing kids to workship a mytholgical god until they are old enough to determine the validity of that myth themselves.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

Just like you Choose to beleive that the planet is only 7 or 8,000 years old or that evolution is a myth both of which are proven scientific facts.

It is simply an old book of myths.

Believe in any old magic, myth, fable or set of nonsensical gods you want and it's fine... believe in reality and you are out on your ear... The good of US of A.

According to the myth, «God» knows at the instant (and even before) that he created you what the cause of your demise would be - whether by stillborn birth, cancer, suicide, accident or old age.

Use logic and reason instead of blind acceptance of 2000 year old myths, written by a primitive culture.

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.

And when it does, I'll laugh in your face for being one of the last vestiges to stand up for an old myth which hasn't a shred of evidence to support its veracity.

Even the central story of the Christian gospels bear a striking resemblance to older Pagan myths.

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.

Meanwhile we have believerfred that has his oh so supernatural god that can change the natural laws of the universe at whim; why because it says so in a 2000 year old book of myths, so there take that.

The silliest of these is the old myth — which I used to think was the invention of some nineteenth - century Protestant clergyman, but which is in fact considerably older — that the «Needle's Eye» was a particularly low gate in the walls of Jerusalem, through which a laden camel could not pass without being unburdened or even (as one zoologically illiterate version has it) crawling through on its knees.

Please give us the patience and understanding to elevate our brethren out of the old fashioned and childish myth we call Christianity.

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

He recommended a few books that I plan to order on my oh - so - old - school Kindle: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor and Faith at the Edge by Robert Wennberg.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

All of us know that the old myths are dead.

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

Old stories, like the Creation myth where YHWH speaks of a «heavenly council» and of «us» most likely is an artefact of those times when the Israelites were polytheistic like everyone else.

But it's just an old book of myths like may others.

No Prime, what's childish is to continue to deny a group their civil rights because a 1600 year old book of myths says you should.

All of this is to say, then, that myth and legend in the Old Testament serve for us a historical purpose: the literature of Genesis informs us in a unique way about the faith of the community of Israel, about what Israel believed.

Again and again, Christians fall back on a 2000 year old collection of myths and fables.

To critics of this type its stories sound like quaint old myths that are rather interesting vestiges of a primitive society but of no particular significance.

Whatever the original intent of Old Testament myth and legend, it is shaped, preserved and understood in Israel by faith.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

The eschatological myth of older ages that the cosmos must someday necessarily be burned up in a cosmic fire also entered into Buddhism.

Some of the assumptions we all maintained about getting older turned out to be myths perpetuated by culture and not the reality we're living in.

After 2,000 years of re-hashing these tired old fables and myths, not a single one has any shred of scientific evidence whatsoever to back them up!

The Bethlehem story with the manger, star, and wise men is a myth so that Old Testament prophecy could be shown to be «fulfilled», and Jesus could be from the line of David which he was not.

IOW, it's the oldest KJ version of myths and legends utilized to control a population, immerse it's followers in a false sense of purpose, embed a fear of an invisible daddy figure and coddle the fear of death.