Sentences with phrase «rather than myths»

The first to jump off will benefit at the polls, so long as they explain clearly to the electorate the facts of life rather than the myths which have disastrously prevailed.

Here's why religion needs to bend — because science is actually based on evidence rather than myths.

rather than myths, personal opinion and unexplained phenomena as a way to define the «self.»

What makes you sure the Judeo - Christian God isn't reality rather than myth?

If religions go, society will have to adopt ethics (rather than myth and superstition) as a basis for acceptable behaviour.

Not exact matches

Rather than discuss the fine points about social insurance programmes and human dignity, repeating urban myths about Loto 10/42 is now accepted expert media commentary from a distinguished economist being interviewed by Don Newman.

This study sheds light on a crucial relationship that is complicated by plenty of rhetoric, and where policy is sometimes founded on myth rather than empirical fact.

The AR - 15 is a legendary American firearm that has become steeped in myth while being maligned by leftists eager to blame the rifle, rather than the criminal who uses it.

I'd say rather than try to invent wish fulfillment with myth and fairy tales about the way we'd like things to be, why not just find our contentment in our present existence, make ours the best lives we can live and just enjoy the ride we have, rather than invent one to dream about.

The nuns need to bolt the Church of Pedophiles and get a grip on reality rather than the delusional myths of religion.

He regards the story of the empty tomb as myth rather than literal history — and a profoundly significant myth.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

I regard the story of the empty tomb as myth rather than literal history, and profoundly significant as myth.

At least, they say, they should be seen as significant «myths» rather than as having factual content.

I regard the story of the empty tomb as a myth rather than literal history, and profoundly significant as a myth.

This worldview requires a completely different set of myths from the worldview of efficiency and self interest: myths that talk about community, connectedness, giving, sharing, helping, and nurturing — rather than self, things, getting, keeping, forcing, using and conquering.

At Advent, it begins again: the cycle by which God breaks through the clutter of our lives to announce to us that the Presence is very near, irrupting into our midst, hauling us out of our myths, our half - truths and the ways we have settled for what is religious rather than what is holy, alive and real.

The second question is whether the translation of myth into the language of concept leads to the existentialist interpretation rather than any other.

Why don't you respond to that, rather than act like we're still talking about a collection of myths and poems and advice and letters?

Thus myth to Frankfort is primarily important as a form of thought rather than as an embodiment of concrete events.

she sees the questions but doesn't make the logical next step, rather than the inspired word of god, the bible is a collection of myths and legends with a healthy dose of patriarchal control freak

Rather than inculcating our children with the primary - color simple Sunday school legends and myths most people do, might I suggest the following ten commandments to enable them to think for themselves.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Though he preferred to speak of biblical «saga» rather than «myth» in order to distinguish biblical myth from the monist mythologies of other religions and philosophies, he urged that, by either name, the «mythical» aspects of scripture should not be regarded as dispensable for theology.

It seems to me more likely, however, that the myth of the rebellious angels is in Paul's mind rather than that of Adam's disobedience.

You know, understanding the world through observation and rational conclusion, rather than through believing everything that an old book of myths tells us.

Bultmann has asked the question whether salvation history, in its formal aspect at any rate, is to be regarded as myth rather than history, and as myth not only in its outer framework but in its essential core, in the event of Jesus Christ.

But the myth caught on, especially after Martin Luther used Junias, rather than Junia, in his German translation of the Bible and identified the pair of former prisoners as male.

Rather than inculcating our children with the primary - color simple Sunday school legends and myths most people do, might I suggest the following ten comandments to enable them to think for themselves.

Again, if we postulate that God «whispered» rather than dictated, is it not possible that those who wrote gave us their understanding of the myths / stories about which they wrote?

Operating under the myth that sexual involvement is always delayed until marriage and that the family is the only normal setting for child - rearing, this coalition opposes programs of «optional parenthood» in which having a child is a matter of choice rather than of chance.

The myths of the God of Israel aren't particularly good (and are sometimes appalling), so they tend to be scrapped rather than rehabilitated for the bits of truth they may have in them.

We would rather believe in the myth of our own greatness than recognize that the rest of the world is blowing by us.

Death is the greatest unknown of all, therefore you christians cling to the most favorable myth of afterlife, rather than accept the logical conclusion that your existence is finite.

start using your brain Nii rather than what you have been told about a myth... you have no evidence and never will have... start looking at folks as human beings with potential rather than sinners and devils... its just a little childish.

In ancient times it denoted a form of thinking based in the real world rather than in myths.

This is an imaginative story, about man rather than about the gods, and consequently it differs from the ancient myths.

Our religions and culture are constantly reinterpreted and reshaped through the combined myths of the suffering and crucified Jesus — as Jaime Vidal has stated: «El Señior del gran poder» — combined with the myths of Cuatemoc: the young Aztec prince who allowed himself to be burned to death slowly rather than give the Spaniard the secret of the Gold and Quetzalcoatl who sacrificed himself for the good of his people.

Thus were the more or less inadequate, casual or corrupt officers of the European Myth exposed as functionaries of a social machine, rather than servants of men in their religious affairs.

I use the general word «myth» from time to time, rather than «religion», to describe the basic assumptions which permeated the whole of society, because «religion» can sometimes suggest something apart from the rest of life.

They are accustomed to think of myth as something false or untrue rather than a poetic, imaginative attempt, through story, to explain things.

you would prefer that people buy into the whole «Jesus as myth» rather than actually know the truth?

Myths thus portray and convey a power to transform man's life, rather than a predominantly theoretical explanation of it.

Rather than brush this aside as an example of the irrelevance of the church, it deserves to be examined as a revealing example of what I mean by the social power of myth.

He added that dairy farmers should focus on the factors they could control, rather than being distracted by the myth that supermarkets set farm gate prices.

Anyway, especially if someone's just going to perpetuate myths I'd rather they say nothing than act like they know what they're talking about — ESPECIALLY if they're a medical professional.

Moreover, then your only worry will be how to keep that rather than concerning any common myths about baby walking.

Their mission is to get the evidence from national guidelines and medical literature into the hands of parents, professionals, and providers — to make VBAC accessible to more people based on actual facts, quality information, and current research, rather than conventional wisdom based on myths and misperceptions.

Some parents choose to offer the «tooth fairy» myth to their child in the hopes of making the loss of teeth an exciting time rather than a fearful one.

The truth: As in myth # 1, low self esteem in children from single parent homes is liable to stem from the economic hardship sometimes associated with such homes, rather than the method of parenting or how many people are available to provide such parenting.