Sentences with phrase «other myths in»

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Like other myths in Genesis the flood myth borrows from the Sumerians, but with the myth modified to make it consistent with Jewish mythology.

Not exact matches

He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

There is a pervasive myth that banks and banking are special and different from all other companies and industries in the economy.

It's the latest in a long line of myths repeated by West and other stars with big platforms.

In other words, you quoted the myth of your god to prove the concept of objective morality.

[10][12] Other religions have different deity - led creation myths, [note 1][13][14][15] while different members of individual faiths vary in their acceptance of scientific findings.

I am an atheist who feels that I should respect other peoples beliefs as long as they respect mine not to believe in the myth that they fell for.

The best you can come up with is a fleeting reference to the House of David, which leaves events that supposedly happened before that in the same realm as other ancient myths.

OK minus the flood... He might seem like a myth but he give hope and light when you feel lost in the dark and if anyone should have second thoughts it should be Christians we die for him get more flack then any other religion why because we found love that you and others can't understand?

The fact that these «myths» appeared in other cultures, centuries before Christianity tell me that there is a basic need in humans to be comforted in this way.

why is the christian myth rooted in the Jewish one... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill to learn why and many other questions on the Roman created myth.

When Muslims become 80 % of the population, try and push creationism and other myths into our science classes, force their god on our currency, take over our government as you Christians do then they'll be in the bulls eye.

Gee, does that mean that this Bible story like so many others in the Bible was just a myth spun by a bronze age dictator to control his subjects?

So, they pulled stories from other religions, said he was born in December, walked on water, water to wine, died and flew out of the cave and voila, a myth becomes someone's reality.

I can't believe in talking snakes, trees that yield knowledge and eternal life fruit, people who lived hundreds of years, a world wide flood that required 2 of every animal be stuffed on a boat, a tower god was afraid might reach heaven, unicorns, satyrs, leviathans that god defeats in battle, zombie messiahs and any other myth I missed.

Have you and your church, or any of the other christians heaping scorn upon the WBC in this blog, issued a public statement condemning your fellow christians at WBC for their behaviour, as many christians have demanded that muslims do when members of their tribe behave contrary to the declared principles of their myths and your expectations?

In case you haven't notice, Christians, and other believers are frequently not content with just believing their myths and fairytales.

There isn't enough water in the world to create a flood as described by the bible and if there were it creates all kinds of other problems with the biblical myth.

Jesus is the «true myth» (with the emphasis on true) which proves the validity of many of the themes and longings of men's hearts which are found in the pagan myths of other religions.

The other main text used to justify the fundamentalist nonsense about ho «mose «xuality, is the Sodom and Gomorrah myth in Genesis.

I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a person who sacrificially gives of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately rises into glory,» is no coincidence.

many of the similarities between Jesus and the myths are mostly written (added) AFTER Jesus... such as Attis being «crucified» there is much evidence to show that ATtis died originally from a spear on a hunting trp... and the crucifixion was added to the story after Christ... as we seen in writings of Greek historians etc. see this page to get more info http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/attis.php this is one of many studies out there to show the supposed similarities between Jesus and myths that debunk current opinions of those who say Christianity is a copycat of other myths

For this inherited outlook which has situated faith and religion in the other - worldly regards the world as «faithless» or religionless, as perfectly neutral and secular, and holds that any imposition of the sacred and religious on the world is a myth, a projection of the mind.

The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.

The other myth describes a time when all human beings lived in one harmonious society; «the whole earth had one language and the same words,» says the story of the Tower of Babel.2 The myth then explains why, in historical time, there have always been many languages, many cultures and many societies.

I can do what I like with my holiday, and I don't have to rename and reconfigure it to please one side or make it about something I don't believe in to appease the other, neither Jesus or Saturn or any other myth that was once attached to the day.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

There are two other concepts in particular that do not fit neatly into one of the foregoing three clusters but which we need to consider as possibilities for Christian Myth.

As elaborated in the Aryan myth, it maintained that Jews were a race and that, notonly were they, like other races, inferior to the Aryan race, but also that Jews were the most dangerous of those inferior races» [1].

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

Any accuracy in the history of Israelites probably comes after the Babylonian captivity, where serious written language skills would have been learned, and where they would have heard the story of Gilgamish, amongst other myths that they could adapt to their use.

NOWHERE has it been shown that God is using an ACTUAL Creature... again God is using things that people KNOW... they knew of MYTHICAL things like dragons... they knew that other religions had drgaons... they were aware of them having dragons in their myths... God simply chose to use that to make a point... show me WHERE it says it was an actual creature...

If believers give up their childish delusional beliefs in some god and the jesus and other myths, I will give up showing them how stupid they are.

It's just that nobody ever tries to convince me or my children to pledge allegiance to any of those others, or pray to them, or to persecute people in their name, or to let the government be used as an aid in indoctrinating more people into their myths.

In other words, the fact that so many people can be swayed by religious myths and religious dogma helps us understand why the world is so messed up — people can be talked into just about anything, including things that are bad for them.

Science, in other words, tells stories that make sense, just as ancient myths did.

It is a spirituality in which myth and archaic man belong to each other.

2) science is based in fact; religion is based in myth... so one is real the other fake.

This is because, as Greg Boyd points out in his book, The Myth of a Christian Nation, Christianity was never intended to have «power over» others, but is based upon «power under» others.

Until you can show that your god is real, it remains in the realm of myth, just like very other religion does.

@ TX — do you believe in Thor and Odin and the other Norse gods, or do you consider stories about them to be myths?

In the name of the one who taught us to take up the cross, the church often took up the sword and nailed others to the cross (The Myth of a Christian Nation p. 81).

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

In other words, we must approach - and fortunately a beginning has already been made - Oceanic or African myths, symbols and rites with the same respect and the same desire to learn that hitherto we have devoted to the cultural creations of the West».

In other words, before taking atheists to task for perhaps incorrectly portraying a myth, how about sorting out your own tribe?

You and your ancient belief system which is just a mix of other mid eastern beliefs and myths, specifically those in the Mediterranean region.

It's just that fundamentalists and other conservative Christians are so caught up in the myth that their ego won't let in new information, even when it hits them in the face.