Sentences with phrase «such primitive»

Instead, developing countries desperately need to replace such primitive and dirty fuels with electricity, the most affordable sources of which are fossil fuels.

This is a major drawback to a game that has such primitive controls.

How such primitive beings could have dispatched the human race is never explained.

\ n \ nNature is, after all, seriously in for the long haul and would never stoop to such primitive (read: STUPID) methods for controlling life.

Together with the highest spiritual and ethical form of monotheism and the most elevated form of asceticism and of meditation, they are amazed to find such primitive sorcery and magic as might be seen in African fetishism.

We disgust ourselves; that's why we behave in such primitive ways.

It is however wonderfully rewarding to be rid of such primitive, arcane nonsense and be able to live a wonderful life free of threats and promises from some idiotic sky daddy.

In this case it is not easy to see how such a primitive revelation could have been handed down during two million years.

You can't expect people in such a primitive country to be happy about the fact that you come in and try to convert people from their brand of nonsense to your brand of nonsense.

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

If you think others are persuaded by such primitive reasoning, you're mistaken.

I don't regret much in this life, only the fact I was born at time when man still had such primitive beliefs.

Could a humanity capable of producing modern civilization be so deeply depraved that it could be set right only through such a primitive sacrificial schema?

Blended with such primitive conceptions was the idea of the sacred bond created between man and man and between man and deity, whether by sharing in a common feast or by having the blood of the sacrifice applied both to the sacred altar and to the persons of the devotees.

Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and author of Malcolm Muggeridge and The New Religious Humanists, has discovered in the relative obscurity of Loveland, Ohio, an artist of genuine spirituality who is showing the way towards such a primitive simplicity.

We don't have to like the fact, and most people when polled are eager to say that they are above such primitive appeals to rancor and panic.

President Akufo - Addo plans to cover - up rottenness of his government using such primitives steps and has planned to release more of such bogus stories.

Not exact matches

AR, even in primitive forms such as the mobile phone game Pokemon Go, has had much broader adoption, pointing to even bigger potential as hardware advances.

As a result, an economy regarded as primitive a generation ago now boasts some of the world's leading technology firms such as Huawei, the telecoms giant.

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

Psalms such as Psalm 109, which ask God to destroy our enemies and their children, can appear only as embarrassing holdovers of «primitive» religious beliefs.

Given the enormous division of labor and degree of specialization required by an advanced economy, such an economy could not be sustained, and the human race would reduced to a primitive economic level.

The descriptions in the Old Testament of such acts of mercy can now seem childish, ritualistic and primitive.

Yet such as it is — and the more certainly so, the more clearly we recognize just what the book is — it remains an extremely valuable document of primitive Western Christianity; though it by no means provides us with all we wish to know about the life and teaching of our Lord, or the life and teaching, activities, and beliefs, of the early church.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

On the other hand, the man of science has no right to dismiss a religion such as Christianity, for example, as a mere hangover from more primitive days.

Possession of the name of either man or god conferred on the possessor control over him — such was and still is the well - nigh universal belief of primitive religion.

(Genesis 22:1 - 18) «Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt - offering» — such is the command, representative of ages of primitive custom, which Yahweh lays on Abraham.

After all, it took two wars, the Holocaust, Stalinism, the H - bomb and Vietnam, among other events, to dampen our optimism sufficiently to allow for a theological reconsideration of primitive ideas such as sin.

There are seemingly many Christians who, Jesus» words and deeds to the contrary, are determined to outspiritualize Jesus, to disembody the Christian faith from its earthy Hebrew roots, to act as if we can experience the grace of God on our own without recourse to such primal and primitive facts as bread, wine and water.

In all probability, it was the vividness of the memory of that pre-Easter fellowship between the disciples and the earthly Jesus that provided the pattern for the development of that remarkable sense of fellowship between the early Christians and the risen Lord which is such a feature of primitive Christianity — and which has had such an effect on the Jesus tradition.

If we need proof that we must lay aside our modern view - point in order to understand such a saying in the sense of primitive Christianity, let us consider a very similar parable of the early Christian tradition.

That the Bible is the record of centuries of religious change, that its early concepts are allied with primitive, animistic faiths, that between such origins and the messages of Hebrew prophets and Christian evangelists an immensely important development is reflected in the Book — this general view is the familiar possession of many in both synagogue and church.

But, if they try and effect social policy, such as denying gays their rights based on their primitive superst.ition, then they, likewise, must be reigned in.

Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, especially those who study folklore and oral traditions, have done much good work in classifying such stages, all the way from the most primitive animism to the most sophisticated philosophical monotheism.

Perception in its primitive mode, as we have seen, is perception of causal efficacy, that is, the causal efficacy of concrete singular entities, and, as a subjective response to such influence, it is emotional rather than cognitive.

Such a view usually either offends our monotheistic sympathies or raises our rational hackles, so we classify it as primitive.

Young people in particular often visualize their moral problem in some such way as this: on the one side is the ideal life with its purity, its self - forgetfulness, its fine awareness of things invisible, and on the other side are the primitive instincts — pugnacity, egotism, sensuality, the caveman within, and between these two there is an irreconcilable hostility.

For the primitive man no such distinction existed, for everything to him was personal.

The primitive Christian movement in Mesopotamia and Persia found itself in the midst of a number of movements and groups such as the Marcionites, Valentinians, Manicheans, which were very congenial to asceticism.

Simply put I and a growing number of Americans have no desire to integrate such a regressive and primitive culture into our own.

It was this general intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors.

It is just this lack of knowledge, and our dependence on isolated fragments of information, not always consistent with each other, which have led to so many different interpretations of the available evidence and to such varying estimates of the development of primitive Christian doctrine and organisation.

Terms such as «primitive» and «archaic» lack clear demarcations.

There is a singularly impressive testimony to this sense of continuity in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the writer claims not only Moses and the patriarchs, but such splendid savages of a primitive age as Gideon, Samson and Barak, as fellow - members of the «heavenly Jerusalem», (Hebrews xii 22 - 23.)

Such a discussion would also be important because it would help to explain the remarkable and much - noted fact that in Mahayana we find, beside some very crude, coarse, and primitive beliefs, rites, and customs, the most sublime and subtle ideas and teachings.

Again there is a wide range between the maximal identity of religion and other activities such as prevail in primitive societies and the tension we find existing on more advanced levels of cultural and religious development.

As such they are primitive and should be discarded by anyone who wants to live in the real world.