Sentences with phrase «others as myth»

If you dismiss any of the others as myth without any «proof» that they never existed then you have no reason to treat God any differently.

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.

«That was an insane number driven by crazy credit and should be viewed the same as gods of ancient Greece and other fables or myths.»

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.

It is the divinity of jesus and all the supernatural mumbo jumbo that goes into the stories, that have never been replicated, that make his myth as believable as Dionysus or any other man inspired god.

Other Christians invoke images of persecution when someone disagrees with them on controversial issues such as abortion or birth control, says Moss, whose «The Myth of Persecution» was recently released.

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.

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.

There is not Christian truth, your religion is cult stolen from other pagan religions it's time for people to recognize it as the myth it is.

Immortals such as your God or any of the other gods are myths.

No but they do disprove the creation myth used as the credentials for gods — without those credentials what other evidence do you have?

@AtheistSteve «IImmortals such as your God or any of the other gods are myths.

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?

But when you use that book of myths as an excuse to harm others, rational human beings are understandably upset and will take acton.

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.

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.

This community continues to grow, stand with each other, and yet allows deep conversations: Jesus as a historical person, a myth, a evolved myth, a vehicle, a part of the god head.....

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 myth declared historical — critical method to be the only true way to read the New Testament, and dismissed all other modes of reading (particularly the despised errors of allegory) as «precritical.»

After considering these three clusters, we will then look at a couple of other concepts that are ideal candidates for inclusion as Christian Myth.

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.

The other myth is that this is a work of «environmental propaganda» (or, as Glenn Beck apparently put it, that Noah is a drunk who is worried about climate change).

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].

i said christianity was a myth, just as at one time zues and the other olympian gods were a religion but are now labeled a myth.

We now know, among many other things, that diseases are not cause by demons as jesus and other myth belivers taught.

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.

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.

It's as fictional as any of the other myths told to all children these days.

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.

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

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.

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.

And it's a weak argument at best, twisting words to fit an agenda but not addressing a false prophecy that disproves your belief and quantifies it as myth alongside other religions.

Theo God is seen in the things that are made, but of course you will have to state your case that Vishnu, Pan Gu or any of the other creation myths does not have as much validity as you myth.

But of course this woman was caught at her business (as was her male partner, though he apparently wasn't accused) after Jesus had come to Jerusalem, and Magdalene was supposed to have been reformed by then, so other myths say.

Here, as in many other creation myths, the various parts of the world are formed of the several portions of the body of the creative being:

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreAs Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas it were, is redolent of the sacred.

Christianity is no different, as Colin said, they even stole other myths from other cultures.

It is always tempting to peel off the historical shell and extract the pure and fruitful kernel, but, as with any tradition, that is to do violence to the inner and unbreakable unity in which permanent truth and historical form are combined in myth as in other things.

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Thus what others have noted and called a great scandal of inconsistency in Bultmann's method strikes me as being singular evidence of his own remarkable sensitivity to the persisting truth of myth, as something existentiell, which somehow must stand over against the logic of demythologizing.

I think that God may have been whispering His truth to other cultures and generations than just the Jewish one, so that when Jesus came, He could be seen as the fulfillment of their hopes, dreams, and myths.

Creationism and ID should be treated the same as any other creation myth.

Really??? Myth or no myth, it's the one time of the year when people come together as a community and think about the needs of other peoMyth or no myth, it's the one time of the year when people come together as a community and think about the needs of other peomyth, it's the one time of the year when people come together as a community and think about the needs of other people.

There are lots of myths... flying saucers, Santa, etc.... but people that believe in those, don't preach hatred and intolerance of others... as well as trying to deprive them of equal rights that other taxpayers in this country (and elsewhere) have access to.

Speaking as an atheist, I don't need a billboard to promote who I am, to buck up other atheists (it's not a pro sport team), or to stick it to the folks who want to believe myths to be real.