Sentences with phrase «than a war god»

Of course he is more than a war god; he is also god of storm, beneficent, life - bringing storm, which makes grass to grow.

Not exact matches

In many ways, the combat in the new «God of War» feels more «Dark Souls» or «Bloodborne» than «God of War.»

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

The news and events of today are no worse than during the height of the Cold War, or during WW1 or WW2, but overall it is true that man's world gets progressively worse and will continue to do so until man's effort to deny and hide from God reaches its cl - imax.

Rather than praise the college for warmly inviting President Bush to give its commencement address, Neuhaus chose to chide the institution because one hundred teachers (less than 30 percent of the faculty) published a respectful letter disagreeing with the very reasonable view that the Iraq War policy is not de-facto «God's will.»

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

How about a study, that religious Americans are more likely to support a war or blame all troubles on God, rather than themselves... You believe or don't all you want, but please stop misleading people, with worthless studies and instead put more energy and resources to help those in need...

Having said that, there have been wars waged between religions claiming «my imaginary friend (God) is better than yours»... I feel like as a reasonable person, I am above that, and I wont get into emotional responsiveness that can incite anger in others, leading to an unproductive discussion.

Few judgments, however, have matched Runciman's own withering peroration: «the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost.»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

We don't value those traits anymore, war is now something more to be avoided rather than envied, and yet you still rationalize that even though you dislike war, that the god in the bible committing this war is justifiable just by the simple act that he's god?

When Christians go to war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

I doubt that wars are «God's Will» but soldiers do not incur God's wrath for serving in the military, since, in this «less than perfect world», nationalistic aggression must be kept in check.

To trust our security to the threat of nuclear war is to base our ultimate hope on chaos as a greater power than God's created possibility of shalom.

In such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shalom.

What the Christian citizen may not do is to obey men rather than God, or overlook the degree of compromise in our best acts, or gloss over the sinfulness of war.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

But Indra also comes to be thought of at times as more than just a fertility and war god.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

The bondage of the church to nationalism has been more apparent than its bondage to capitalism, partly because nationalism is so evidently a religion, partly because it issues in the dramatic sacrifices of war — sacrifices more obvious if not more actual than those which capitalism demands and offers to its god.

However much those forms recognized that males were socialized more toward war than were women, they featured an ethic of peacemaking based on Christian conversion to God's will for peace on earth that was directed to men and women equally.

He says, «I am convinced it is best to regard the Old Testament's description of God's involvement in war as reflective of how people thought about God in a particular historical context — rather than as descriptive of what God actually said and did» (p. 118).

For me, who started out my life as an evolutionary, nihilist, atheist... It is very good news that there is a God, He is good, He loves me, I am not alone, He will never leave me or forsake me, He loves being with me, I'm can be more myself with Him than without Him, He isn't afraid of my doubts, I'm free to question anything, I'm safe, death is not the end, the earth will be restored, we will see righteous government, there will be an end to war, I will get to be a part of that restoration, I am a part of it now, all I do now that is of the kingdom shall remain, I will see the full fruit of that labor in the world to come... Wow.

Nowhere in the Genesis account does it indicate that Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils of war because God told him to, nor does it indicate that he ever did it more than the one tome.

If there was a god and it really cared, I'd hope it would find something better for people to do than fight in wars.

Me too Roger — I had enough of these politicians on a mission for God with George W. Bush and his three wars in the Middle East that cost us blood far more precious than the neocons made in money off those wars — not to mention the grief he cost us with his NAFTA and TARP set up to bail out his Wall Street cohorts.

The nonpacifist is more likely than the pacifist to believe that God participates in human conflict, using stern measures and even if necessary the awful destructiveness of war, to protect a State against its enemies and to enable a State to protect the helpless against aggression.

In the great crises of life, such as the anguish and dangers of war, separation from loved ones by death, illness that sweeps away all one's normal powers, it is sometimes easier to trust in God than during the ordinary tensions and strains of living.

Narrow and constricted as it was, the order supplied to the European peoples by primitive Christendom, that premature construction of a supposed City of God on earth, may have seemed better than the chaos of a war of all against all.

Honestly, I would rather believe that the Bible is full of errors than believe that the Old Testament depicts a blood - thirsty, vengeful, God of war and carnage that is the same as the God revealed in Jesus Christ.

For wars and fightings is nothing more than a mechanism God set up for light to fight back against darkness and for good to fight back against evil.

And the truth is having faith Star Wars is cooler than Star Trek makes about the same difference as having faith in the Hebrew God or the Hindu God or any other for that matter.

Yet, this reminder that «women come nearer to fulfilling their God - given function in the home than anywhere else» still quickens the hearts of church - going Americans whose understanding of the world was formed by the domestic values associated with «the family pew» after World War II.1

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

With the assistance of this mission, we envision a world free of fear, bigotry, corruption, social injustice and war; where each human being lives, breathes and dies in brilliance, in accordance with their God - given destiny; where true wealth is measured not by how much one possesses, but rather by how much one gives; where true leadership is guided by sacrifice and selfless service, rather than by self - interest and hunger for control; where the highest ambition of every human is to know the Truth, speak the Truth and be the Truth.

God of War's reboot is a triumph... Our few complaints — and there are very few — would be that the boat sections add little to the actual gameplay other than a cumbersome way to explore the world.

With a pulse - pounding score by Alan Silvestri, beautiful cinematography from Trent Opaloch, impressive special effects, and an incredible cast, Avengers: Infinity War is more than a great movie, it's an honest - to - god achievement in blockbuster filmmaking.

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But none of them feel as if they are willing to take much in the way of a risk, and while filmmakers like James Gunn and Taika Waititi seem to have had some liberty to make the interstellar exploits of the crew of The Milano and the Nordic wanderings of the God of Thunder their own, it was equally apparent Marvel wasn't going to allow them stray too far afield in a way that would make getting to Avengers: Infinity War more difficult than it needed to be.

God of War PS4 reviews have been out for a few days now and the critical reception is more than amazing for this new gameplay reboot of Kratos.

It's clear that Masters of the Universe is a derivative film, from the very Superman - like opening credits and theme song, to the Star Wars type confrontations, and some even cite Jack Kirby's «New Gods» comic books as a primary source, although my belief is that the film's creators merely ripped - off other sources that were influenced Kirby's creations rather than a direct lifting of characters and themes.

Avengers: Infinity War, the third entry in the Avengers cycle («the greatest cinematic event of our lifetimes» might sound like hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than not), confirms Thanos (voiced and mo - capped by Josh Brolin), the purple - skinned, scrotal - chinned, big - muscled bodybuilder with a God Complex not just as probably the greatest supervillain put on film, but quite possibly the first Malthusian supervillain in or out of the Marvel Industrial Complex.