Sentences with phrase «of other ancient peoples»

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His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Christian Communion is vampiric, The Great Rite is just using other people to get one's jollies, tell me a religion (modern or ancient) and I bet there will be at least one similarity regarding the control of people.

One would have thought that a visitor from the creator of the Universe would visit (or at least mention) the millions up millions of Chinese and other Asians, all the people spread throughout North and South America, the Australian Aboriginals, the ancient Europeans or the Subsaharan Africans.

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.

That is a misunderstanding that many people assign to atheism, but has never actually been a part of the words usage (even in ancient times, atheists were those without god, while other terms were used to refer to those that BELIEVED there was no gods).

In his encyclical on Holy Scripture, Pius XII warmly acknowledges that the inquiry of modern exegetes «has also clearly shown the special preeminence of the people of Israel among the other ancient nations of the East....»

They are an insular people who refuse to be «Westerinzed» and stay away from others (including Conservative and Reformed Jews) They follow ancient and modern rules laid out by Rabbi's who are trying desperately to maintain control of their flock.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

The Deuteronomic commandment, in other words, is God's inspired revelation to his people - it is trustworthy and authoritative - but it must be understood both in terms of the historical realities of life in ancient Israel (the people's sin) and in terms of God's wider revelation in the whole of Scripture.

It can be seen that Joseph of Egypt was a great influence of these people and his posterity were the ancient Indians, not only the Mayans, but many other tribes of the Indian people.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

Aristotle believed that such a capacity is limited to communities roughly the size of the ancient Greek city «states (approximately fifty thousand people living in close proximity to each other), but the modern nation «state proves him wrong.

On the matter of redistributing goods and helping others, Theissen argued that in early Christianity we find a merging and mutual correction of two different structures of social benevolence: that of the ancient Near Eastern authoritarian monarchies, in which charity and compassion are shown by the upper classes to the lower classes, and» that of the Greco - Roman republican townships, in which philanthropia is extended between persons of equal social status.

But with bringing all this ancient stuff up we are again repenting of other people's sins... which makes us true Christians or hypocrites?

-- And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

Dalahäst And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

The Hebrews thus were quick to act against practices in the ancient world that were common to other people but which violated the principle of the sacredness of life.

This reveals the ancient wisdom of our faith that recognizes that most of our people are good hearted, who do not victimize others actively, but passively miss the clear call to love — not because they are unloving, but lazy, ignorant, or whatever.

That David or other people did these things in ancient times proves nothing about God or people's concept of him.

There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!

often times (as an ancient teaching method), positives & negatives are laid side by side purposefully so that the meaning is clear... in other words, so people won't take it OUT OF CONTEXT.

The Israelites wrote as ancient people, and their argument for why Yahweh is above all the others gods (see, for example, Psalm 95) only worked because of the shared mythic categories between Israel and her neighbors.»

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

On the other hand, people who are the products of a prevailingly analytical, logical habit of mind - possessors of modern Greek - Western modes of thinking, rather than the ancient Hebraic - Eastern quality of thought - instinctively and habitually find themselves delayed, snagged, or otherwise discontented or dismayed by any absence in the text of specific agreement in detail, by any appearance of the inconsistent, whether overt or only implied.

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.

This brought them under the influence of the mythological interests which had continued among other ancient peoples.

Since the idea of rebirth was generally accepted by Buddhists as well as by all other people in India, and since birth was not limited to the human level, it was possible to have Buddha born to fit any ancient tale of India, whether of beast or people — and this was actually done.

Spelt is a species of wheat much more common in ancient and medieval times but newly popular as some people look to explore older varieties of common foodstuffs and others feel that health benefits may accrue from avoiding some varieties of wheat in favor of others.

By comparing five Canaanite genomes with those of other ancient and modern populations, the researchers identified the Canaanites» ancestors and discovered their descendants, modern Lebanese people.

But others point out that science could benefit if Native American tribes use ancient DNA to secure the return of more remains, because this may deliver long - sought data on the peopling of the region.

Petraglia expects that ancient DNA and other fossil finds will paint a much more complicated picture of the peopling of Asia.

They compared it to that of modern Native Americans, as well as to other ancient and living people across Eurasia and the Americas.

Germonpré and colleagues have studied skulls and jawbones of even more ancient canids in caves and other places where Ice Age people lived more than 25,000 years ago.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

Glacial Moment It's not much of a slope, but this hill, and others like it, are evidence of the ancient forces that ultimately brought me and more than 8 million other people to live in New York City.

None of these results has been independently replicated, though, and critics have long suspected that the «ancient» DNA was actually contaminants from people handling the amber or other modern DNA sources.

«This religious group probably mixed less with later waves of people than others in the region and therefore preserved more of that ancient ancestry,» said Broushaki.

With DNA analyses of enough ancient people, Lazaridis says, «I think it will be possible to reconstruct the whole timeline of what happened in Lebanon and other parts of the world.»

Comparisons of these genomes with those of other ancient Eurasian peoples indicate that Canaanite ancestry was split roughly 50 - 50 between the early farmers who settled the Levant and immigrants of Iranian descent who arrived later, between 6,600 and 3,550 years ago.

Other ancient mariners, he discovered, had ventured into stormier waters to the north: Some 21,000 years ago, people had paddled boats across 30 miles of choppy water from Honshu to Kozushima Island to fetch shiny black obsidian, a type of volcanic glass, for stone tools.

Experiments show that both canines and capuchins prefer those of us who help other people, hinting that morality may have a more - ancient origin than thought

The ancient women also were related to other people who speak the remaining and endangered 75 or so Tungusic languages spoken by dwindling numbers of ethnic people in eastern Siberia and China.

Other recent analyses of ancient DNA samples have led to revisions of hypotheses about the peopling of Europe, the Arctic, and Australia.

The team found stark differences between the genomes of ancient people on the southern side of the region in Israel and Jordan, and those on the other side of the Zagros mountains in western Iran.

Thus, this is why people are motivated to look at ancient climates where there are times of much larger temperature changes and forcing signals, that we can hopefully relate to each other to interrogate the sensitivity problem in a more robust fashion.