Sentences with phrase «than a myth»

Who, having understood that religions are nothing more than myths, would choose to fall back into that trap?

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

Nothing is more dangerous than the myth of perfect safety.

But I fear your mind is not open to anything other than myths.

Life is more complicated than those myths many people believe in.

What powers, one wonders, more potent than myths could enforce constraints at the cultural level?

In other words, it's less about the actual events than the myth that is built up around them, especially for the majority of people who will never set foot inside.

That is, similar varieties of fixed kinds, rather than the myth that he already knew that evolution was responsible for the creation of separate species.

The problem is that you base your beliefs on nothing more than myths.

It may freely admit both its strength and its weakness, but it knows that the act of God which is the ground of its own experience is greater than myth, and that it can experience that act more genuinely the more it penetrates behind mythology to the essential core of truth.

It requires acceptance of the subversive challenge, the occasional disruption, the periodic and unpleasant but vital shock of recognition that things change faster than myths and must be reckoned with.

It is no good our going on about Scripture if our audience thinks it has been shown to be no truer than the myths of other religions.

«Now I see that the tale told in The Homeric Hymn is more of an ongoing truth than a myth,» Coffey writes in an essay included with the exhibition, and it's worth wondering if the opposite will ever be true.

She, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman all clamor for second - tier billing, proving that too many awesome actors with too little screen time is sadder than the myth of global warming.

Actual exit surveys for films like The Hunger Games series offer a very different picture of who's going to the movies than the myth of the young, white, male.

I am not a «fast» typist, but I am considered a «fast» writer because I spend more time writing than the myth allows.

«No idea has proven more damaging to the comics industry than the myth that its professionals — not just creators, but retailers, even distributors — work for love and not money.

I know I'm an apostate for saying so, but I think the proposition that you must invest most of your nest egg in equities to have a hope of putting food on the table during your retirement years is nothing more than a myth invented by Wall Street's marketers.

This isn't going to be a post about Coca - Cola market research strategy in the 1980s — I am sure it was far more complicated than the myths that have grown up about it — rather this polling from YouGov for the Times about NHS spending.

A thousand years after our 21st century civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a lost world.

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

They go on to say that when we treat the Bible as a collection of stories from which we are to draw universal, abstract truths, we are effectively treating the Bible as little more than myth (p. 145).

Jesus is nothing more than a myth, built from the stories of multiple deities.

I find it VERY difficult to bait god and jesus, since NEITHER of them is any more than a myth.

Sounds to me like all religeons are nothing more than a myth, fantasy.

Religion is nothing more than myths and magic.

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

Vic You are here promoting your religion, dare I say preaching Christianity but can't seem to take the push back from those that believe your religion is any more than a myth, one of the ugliest versions of the god myths BTW.

The simple fact is this: Christianity can not show that it is anything more than myth.

In practice (and in the billboard from this article) athiests are acting out the worst aspects of religion, the very same aspects they deride in those of faith (other than myth).

Daniel is a myth and his visions an impossibility, John is an attributed name by the Church to some of the letters that make up the bible and Jesus, unless you can provide credible evidence, is nothing more than a myth, an amalgamation of different religions and created as the last messiah, before Mohamed came along — oops and NEVER existed.

Jeebus never was, and never will be, anything more than a myth.

While you are free to be offended by the banner proclaiming your religion to be nothing more than a myth, you have no right to expect anyone to not display it.

Yosef Garfinkel, a highly respected archaeologist in Israel, said that the Tel Dan Stela (pictured above, left) «led to the collapse of the minimalist paradigm in which David was little more than a myth.

Wouldn't finding out Jesus was nothing more than myth or folklore or just an extreme case of the telephone game be quite embarrasing..

It is nothing more than myths and magic.

All religions, every single one of them, is based on nothing more than myths, ancient legends, fairy tales and imaginary friends.

It was at that job that I realized muscle confusion is more than a myth.

Clearly, through this conversation I have not allowed data and facts to dissuade me from my opinion that clutch is more than myth... and it's probably most likely that I just enjoy the idea of clutch and that a player rises to the occasion.

More than Myth: The Developmental Significance of Romantic Relationships During Adolescence.