Sentences with phrase «than the myth of»

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.

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.

Nothing is more dangerous than the myth of perfect safety.

Not exact matches

«I've maintained for a very long time that this kind of myth about more business being done on the golf course than anywhere else isn't a myth.»

But, unfortunately with most social media sites, and especially Facebook, this is nothing more than a cruel myth that puts misplaced hope into the hearts of young marketers everywhere

Apple, despite the shattered myth, is more than proof of that.

Getting money for your new business is easier than you think — once you dispel the three common myths of bank financing.

A new study from the National Association of Realtors underscores the fact that the 20 % mark is far more myth than reality.

Not about the notion of unhindered upward mobility itself — even the most optimistic have long since acknowledged that particular American Dream is more myth than reality.

Harper - economics lead to a Harper - recession and now to a Harper - deficit Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Confirmation federal government finances have fallen back into deficit raises more questions about Harperâ $ ™ s image, now more myth than reality, as a sound economic manager.

In fact, it turns out gold — at least the idea that it is of intrinsically more worth than another mineral — is another myth.

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.

In this episode of the Better Than Success Podcast, host Nicole Purvy talks about the Top 4 Myths about Having a Mentor.

But what I do know is this: From that sharing of tips, tricks, rumours and urban myths emerges a gaming experience with more sense of community than anything I've seen in years.

A myth persists of the «starving freelancer» who pursues the independent career path more for lifestyle than money.

Do YOU concede that that is nonsense that will put us even farther behind our international competi.tors than we already are by losing time to teach actual science while all the worlds origin myths are covered over months of «science» class?

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

These myths are as follows: that narcissism is «really high» self - esteem; that underneath the facade, narcissists are insecure; that narcissists really are better looking or smarter; that some degree of narcissism is healthy; and that narcissism is nothing more than a bit of physical vanity.

It can certainly be credited for geographical knowledge, as well as folk wisdom learned from experience, such as the proscriptions against eating shellfish or pork, but it is certainly nothing more than the recorded myths of a specific people from specific points in time.

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.

There is nothing to gain from this, other than knowing that the bible is a collection of myths.

Mr. Mastropaolo's problem is that even considering his wager would make a scientist seem, well, less than serious.There's this too: is there a standard interpretation of the Bible's creation myths?

That a dumb bronze - age myth can take the most precious, final moments of a woman's lifetime, and corrupt them with more than the fear that looming death itself already brings, is absolutely sickening.

There are more contradictions in your bible including the gospels, than Bobby Henderson, could fit into the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the modern day equivalent to the jesus» myth.

Science writers Carl Sagan and Fritjof Capra have pointed out similarities between the latest scientific understanding of the age of the universe, and the Hindu concept of a «day and night of Brahma», which is much closer to the current known age of the universe than other creation myths.

Humans are still Tribal and we may never rid ourselves of Myth which will, more than likely, be our ultimate downfall..

Your particular myth is no different than any of the other myths spouted.

True, so why don't you do us all a favor: Keep your God, and admit that the Bible, the Torah and the Qur «an is nothing more than a collection of myths and fables.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

Nothing could be a greater indictment of the modern Church than this (The Myth of a Christian Religion).

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend it more than any other religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't know much about them other than H0llyw00d myths.

There is no evidence that the bible is anything more than a collection of ancient, middle - eastern myths.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

Either Israel is the chosen people and receives a revelation from God, so that what it holds, transcribes, and transmits is a Word of God and not its own ideas, or Israel is not the chosen people and its ideas and myths and writings are of no more interest than those of the Aztecs or the Japanese.

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

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

Speaking of a «true myth» may catch attention, but it is also misleading for most people, suggesting that the truth in the myth is something less than really true.

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.

Even Hegel's system, for all that it sought to have done with petty subjectivism, could do so only by way of a massive metaphysical myth of the self - positing of the Concept, and of a more terrible economy of necessity than any pagan antiquity had imagined.

Ogden stated in Christ Without Myth (1961) that he intended to express the «objective» reality of the event Jesus Christ more adequately than Bultmann had succeeded in doing, but that this would have to come in a later work.17 His fullest treatment of the problem thus far appeared in 1963 in his essay, «What Sense Does it Make to Say, «God Acts in History»»?

Again, this says nothing about the inherent ethical superiority of secularism, but it does dispel the myth that the irreligious are somehow less moral than those with a religion.

Can myth in our time be no more than a dead fragment of the forgotten past or a pathological aberration of the sick mind?

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

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

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.

That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»