Sentences with phrase «old mythology»
The phrase "old mythology" refers to ancient stories, beliefs, or legends that were passed down through generations. It usually describes the traditional and often magical tales of gods, heroes, and creatures from a long time ago. Full definition
Clearly ancient eastern, non-Jewish conceptions influenced this Baptist movement; old mythology of Persia or Babylon perhaps also influenced the Baptist's preaching of the coming Judge.
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Religion on the other hand is pretty much the opposite — dogmatic clinging to 2,000 + year old mythology with charlatans adding inane explanations of the unproven, and unprovable.
Harry Potter's theology is a very old mythology and is part of a very long tradition of fantasy - fiction based on Norse legends.
It's haunted by old mythologies and out - of - date thinking, which directly reflect the lack of an evidence base for rescue.
They are so blinded by their disfunctional, literal belief in a 2000 + year old mythology (the basics of which, by the way, were refined by several religions centuries before Christianity came on the scene, religions who were then summarily and viciously erradicated by those professing the Christian faith) that they think they magically possess a divine right to judgementally verblize hatred for others who simply do not agree with them or look like them.
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.
If you study current religions and older mythologies, it seems that a good case could be made for all of the Gods of Mankind being villains.
When they published their first volume of fairy tales in 1812, they viewed the stories as remnants of old mythologies.
The oldest mythologies dwell on cosmic and theistic issues, and Paul Halpern shows in The Cyclical Serpent that modern cosmology has much in common with the endless dance of Siva and the cult of Ouroboros, the self - eating serpent.
Terminator: Genisys is a bridge to the future in that it captures the feel (not the greatness) of T1 and T2 while laying the groundwork for a full departure from the old mythology in forthcoming installments.
«Abzu» is from the oldest mythologies; Ab, meaning water, and Zu, meaning to know.
«The name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know.