Sentences with phrase «state as a myth»

But it is historically absurd of Barton to dismiss the separation of church and state as a myth, given that the founders expressly intended to end state support for a specific church, The founders were, on the whole, less religiously orthodox than the average American.

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That is a frontal attack on the small - business - as - job - creator myth that dominates the political discourse in countries such as the United States and Canada.

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.

By way of an answer I explained that a large majority of Americans — anywhere from 76 to 83 percent, in fact — identify themselves as Christian and that many of the guiding myths, symbols and ideals of the United States have their roots in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Dr. John Sorensen, President of Evangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of evangelism.

Ogden also states that Christian faith could be explicated as a doctrine of God just as well as it could as a certain possibility of self - understanding, ibid., 170; Christ Without Myth, 148

People who state that God and Jesus are a myth are clueless because they never accepted him as there savior.

It can be used, then, as a pliable instrument in the hands of the political leaders [The Myth of the State, Yale University Press, 1964].

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.

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

As for atheists, you state it as a FACT that Jesus is / was a mytAs for atheists, you state it as a FACT that Jesus is / was a mytas a FACT that Jesus is / was a myth.

This is the myth of International security: the persistent belief, contrary to historic evidence as well as to logical demonstration, that states can continue sovereign and independent, while, at the same time, it is nevertheless possible to work out a system of security among — as distinct from above — them: international security.

The creation myth in Genesis states this symbolically — the expulsion from Eden was the result of eating the fruit of a tree which made men «as gods, knowing good and evil» (Gen. 3:5).

Here are four basic myths about the media — assumptions about communication which are never stated as such, but are present in almost every media presentation.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

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.

After restoring J's missing creation account, suppressed in favor of the Priestly version in Genesis 1, Bloom turns his attention to the Garden of Eden story, reading it not as a story of sin and punishment, not even as, in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, a myth of deviation, but as a lovingly and playfully ironic account of the unsatisfactory state of affairs in which we find ourselves and, more specifically, in which the author found herself in the twilight days of the post-Solomonic era.

I hear parents state this myth as truth repeatedly.

As the State University's Rockefeller Institute pointed out in 2014, pension - fund managers and trustees have been embracing «potentially destructive myths and misunderstanding» about the true costs and risks associated with their promises.

Silver dismisses the arguments that increasing the minimum wage hurts jobs as a «myth», and he says studies have proved that retail services, where many of the entry level jobs are located, don't leave when a state raises its minimum wage.

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

As a result, I came across your article about medical myths (12 February, p 40), which stated that «it's not just tabloid newspapers that misrepresent medical statistics for dramatic effect», before the «Insight» column (p 11) about employing «taste bud trickery» to cut salt intake in the US.

According to calorie myths, even if an overweight individual did not eat any calories, they would not be in a state of caloric deficit as they are still surrounded (literally) by calories.

some good stuff, but we're not really dispelling much of the initially stated myths or «bullshit» as much as verifying their base points.

«Myth» examines science and space travel in the 1960s as well as the state of science - fiction films.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

He was the most successful athlete at the games and as such has been credited with single - handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy (although the host country won the most medals in the Games, 89 to 56 over the second - place United States, including 33 gold).

Since the 1960s, a popular myth has depicted Asian Americans as the «model minority» in the United States, painting Asian American students as high - achieving, diligent, intelligent, and generally agreeable to adults.

Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»

When Lexie Domaradzki took the job as the state of Washington's Reading First administrator in 2003 — she has since been promoted to lead administrator for K — 12 Reading — she was determined to shatter the myth that poor children couldn't learn to read as well as anybody else.

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

States continuing to focus on technology planning — as it's been done historically — would seem to risk perpetuating the myth that we can cram technology into the existing instructional paradigm and expect new outcomes.

But as Don Orlich and I (Tienken and Orlich, 2013) describe in Chapter 7 of our new book, The School Reform Landscape: Fraud, Myth, and Lies, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative continues to ramble on, without evidence to support its efficacy.

This myth emanates from the edu - establishment that IS in fact a relatively monolithic entity as the age - old partnership between management and labor, the California edu - bureaucracy and the state and local teaching unions.

But as we've reported for a long time at Substance, the facts about Vallas's careers (in several cities and states, as well as overseas, is clear — and clearly not the myth promoted by Vallas and his allies that Vallas is some kind of miracle worker.

He said that as more states use vouchers or tax credits, this improves the likelihood that other states will adopt them and noted that «the more we can demonstrate success, the easier it is to debunk the myths out there and to say it is in our best interest to put educational choice on the table.»

MYTH: The main problem with education is the lazy or incompetent teacher, who is protected by corrupt unions and supervised by out - of - control local school councils, so the key to reform is a system of rewards and punishments and the dismantling of rights to organize (as with state legislation currently under debate).

To help educators become that trusted voice, ASCD's next issue of Policy Points, to be released in the coming weeks, dispels those aforementioned Common Core myths, addressing widespread questions about federal involvement and local control of schools as well as other misunderstandings related to the standards» relationship to curriculum, their cost to states, student privacy, and more.

In fact, and rather, we have evidence directly from the state of Ohio contradicting this claim that he calls a «myth» — that, indeed, bias is alive and well in Ohio (as well as elsewhere), especially when VAM - based estimates are aggregated at the school level (see a post with figures illustrating bias in Ohio here).

It was more that we are so familiar with the Greco - Roman gods, and it was harder to come up with ways that they could have come to the United States (although as I finished the book several fringe archaeological discoveries gave me ways I could have done it); and that the Norse myths are so bleak, and always end in Ragnarok... In your acknowledgments, you allude to the best line of dialogue in the epilogue, but you don't identify it.

I strongly recommend reading Kris Rusch on the business of publishing, Dena Wesley Smith on Think Like A Publisher and the myths of publishing, and start reading The Passive Voice as well, to educate yourself on the state of the industry.

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As stated in Pit Bull Myths, the population of pit bulls first erupted in the mid 1970s, when pit bulls (fighting dogs) began leaking into the general population from the illegal world of dogfighting.

The following was translated by Persona Central... - Etrian Odyssey series discussion with director Shigeo Komori - celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series this year - Komori feels that each of his titles are culminations of the experience and knowledge he has gained up to that point - in August 4, 2016 issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine (the same date as the Japanese release date of Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth), he stated that he had not yet decided what would lie in the future for the series - after seeing fan opinions, Komori realized that there are certain aspects of the series where he had been too obsessed with coming up with something new every time - 10th anniversary of the series brings about the recent launch of Etrian Mystery Dugneon 2, as well as the release of various merchandise - alongside that, Komori sees more and more opinions from series fans on social media - On currently developing a new Etrian Odyssey game: «In order to meet the expectations of these fans, I would like to deliver a «festival» - like game that can be said to be another culmination [of the series].

Yet after making a name for himself as an Abstract Expressionist, Guston gradually became increasingly frustrated with abstraction and its connotations, stating in 1960 that «There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth we inherit from abstract art.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Prior to joining the ICA, Weaver served as curator of modern and contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., where she organized such shows as «Willie Doherty: Traces» (2011 - 12), «Minimalism: Now / Then / Again» (2011 - 12), «Andy Warhol: Myths» (2010), «Abstract Art and the Nature of Things» (2009) and «The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States» (2009).

In those states the energy economies may be based on different hydrocarbons, but the political and cultural pressure to sustain the myth of sustainable fossil - fuel extraction is every bit as great.

As the executive summary states, the Baker Institute analysis seeks to «help clarify and debunk common myths that currently plague the U.S. energy and climate policy debate.»