Sentences with phrase «old mythology of»

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Ward, says Cunningham, «alludes to the Old Testament and Greek mythology with equal frequency and intensity; for her, Katrina is comparable in significance to the Egyptian captivity or the aftermath of the Trojan War.»

Read a biography or 2 instead of your 2000 year old big book of moldy mythology.

No... they're about ignorant fairytales from an archaic old book of ancient mythology.

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

According to St.Bede, an English historian of the eighteenth century, Easter owes its origin to the old Teutonic 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.

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.

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.

Camping was an old fool who wasted his time attempting to force fit a book of mythology into reality.

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

Harry Potter's theology is a very old mythology and is part of a very long tradition of fantasy - fiction based on Norse legends.

Most of the stories in the Bible were taken from older Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek mythologies

That's because we embrace the Enlightenment and think instead of living according to some 2000 year - old Bronze Age book of mythology.

The midrash rejoins here texts in the Old Testament and in the Jewish tradition, which are attentive to the risks of a cult of the nation and the temptation to a mythology on the Ûbermensch.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

The best proof of existence this god has is a compilation of old stories, some of them fantastic in nature, but no more so than in any mythology.

It was characteristic of the older liberal theologians that they regarded mythology as relative and temporary.

Perhaps we may put it schematically like this: whereas the older liberals used criticism to eliminate the mythology of the New Testament, our task to - day is to use criticism to interpret it.

Some people keep referring to «old mythologies» as the source of scriptures as if it were true.

When Jesus, therefore, pictured the finale of the universe in terms of the contemporary mythology, with fire, worms, wailing, and gnashing of teeth for sinners, and bliss for the righteous, he was using an old form of imagination.

Accurate geology and names does not change the fact that a lot of the supernatural portions of the bible are cribbed from older mythologies.

But then I'm not holding my breath — fred has had this same argument time and time again, and has yet to come up with any credible evidence for his particular brand of make - believe — something so obviously rehashed from older mythology.

Evolution is written about in a 2,000 year old book of late Bronze Age and Greco - Roman Jewish mythology.

That is why I read Greco - Roman Mythology, Geetas, Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) Greek Bible (New Testament), Arabic Bible (Koran), Punjabi Bible (Garanth Sahab) and even American Bible (Book of Mormons).

Often in the Old Testament and overwhelmingly in the New, mythology» the mechanics of scapegoat sacrifice» is penetrated.

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.

A fun fact about Les Néréides is that the name derives from Greek Mythology in which the Néréides were the sea nymph daughters of Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.

Here, a 25 - year - old woman explains what it's really like dating an older man nearly 15 years her senior — and lays out the good and bad parts of dating Read about the Capricorn man in love as well the Capricorn personality, mythology and all the other love signs.

While the old - school comic book feel refreshingly replaces the humdrum bravado of the Hulks and Fantastic Fours of late, one can only handle so much Greek mythology, Nazis, and egg.

Will you (or your kids) be able to fully appreciate all of its jokes if you're not familiar with older incarnations of Batman or his overall mythology?

To reflect God of War's use of Norse mythology, makers of the game traveled to Iceland to find a choir that sings in old Norse for authenticity.

From the old — Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog, The Last King of Scotland, Rogue One)-- to the new — breakout star and Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)-- Black Panther celebrates its blackness by filling every nook and cranny of the film with African symbolism, mythology, and memorabilia, in addition to its host of talent with their multitude of African roots.

Ever since John Ford admitted to printing the legend in his 1962 masterpiece, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the traditional mythology of the Old West has undergone an extensive series of cinematic reappraisals.

John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds.

Understanding what could be meant by the title of the series goes some way towards understanding the structure of the story's cosmology, here a future - scape where the only distinct characters are bounty hunters and the fugitives that they hunt, sometimes with the help of a gloriously cheesy television program that apes reality shows on the one hand (and the Japanese have a long history of outrageous television that no number of «Fear Factor «s can approach), but more trenchantly, the Japanese infatuation with the mythology of the American Old West.

In keeping with the Old West from whence the stories came, Hollywood has always worked overtime stretching and kneading fresh mythologies using plenty of dough and grains of truth.

Every superstition, old wives tale, piece of folk lore, urban legend is our mythology.

In an action - packed fantasy novel that combines Aztec and Mayan mythology with life in contemporary South Texas and Mexico, 12 - year - old twins descend into the Land of the Dead to find their mother.

To overcome the resistance that many young and old blacks have of looking deeply into our past I have come up with a creation: A historical novel that uses the tools of mythology and science fiction to create a scenario that allows the reader to identify with a main character who will rise above all others; a character who will be a triumphant hero amidst the travesty of slavery.

It's haunted by old mythologies and out - of - date thinking, which directly reflect the lack of an evidence base for rescue.

It's considered the center of earth in Hindu mythology, and it's one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.

Can't remember if he specifically said Kratos going to Nordic mythology or just God of War, but it's an idea as old as God of War 1.

God of War is a soft reboot of the series, taking Kratos from the world of Greek mythology — which he subsequently killed all of the deities within — and planting him years later as an older and wiser warrior in the world of the Norse.

The word ABZÛ references old Mesopotamian mythology, meaning the ocean of wisdom.

As such, the name ABZÛ references a concept from the oldest Mesopotamian mythology: it is the combination of two ancient words Ab, meaning ocean, and Zû, meaning to know.

God of War is the latest entry in the series, a soft reboot of the franchise taking the Ghost of Sparta, Kratos, and showing him as an older and wiser warrior in a brand new world of Norse mythology.

«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.

The Father / Son, Teacher / Student dynamic is as old as the mythology God of War is rooted in.

Maybe the memory of reading Nintendo Power's mini-guide to Super Metroid and grappling with the then - awesome 16 - bit boss fights would've made me impossible to please either way, but it just felt gimmicky to try to cram the old, established mythology into yet another first - person shooter shell.