Sentences with phrase «there as a symbol»

That character's brief arc goes in a direction that will initially leave many baffled, as he's purely there as a symbol, not to serve the plot.

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«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

Also, as each species is profiled, there are maps and symbols that further explain the animal's life and habitat, size, population, and conservation status.

Were there plans for a crescent or a star of david, or a peace symbol at the site, as well?

A cross at a memorial site is completely appropriate, as is any other religious symbol that can be placed there.

«As a city of great diversity, one shouldn't be surprised that there's a difference of views when it comes to symbols and words,» said City spokesman Mark McDonald.

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

As a Christian, there should really be no symbols needed to worship because God is spirit.

As a Catholic I might give some consideration to the comments of professors, priests, nuns, et al. who parade their Catholicism if any can show they came foward to critic Georgetown University when it bowed to President Obama when he decreed a religious symbol must be covered before he would speak there.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

The lady of the Song speaks of her unguarded vineyard (1:6), and there is frequent reference (2:16; 4:5; 5:1; 6:2) to the garden (s) where the lover grazes, not among «lilies» (as traditionally understood), but on the lotus, an ancient and famous sexual symbol.

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There has been a presentation in which a biblical symbol has been pushed to the exclusion of the rest, so that the resultant picture is not adequate to the richness of the biblical witness as it has been developed and modified through centuries of Jewish history.

There should be some clear Christian symbol, such as a Bible or a cross or a prayer book, in the proper place.

However, Eliade hesitates to assign a privileged position to the Judeo - Christian tradition as he argues that there are images and symbols in Christianity, which are common properties of the entire religious history of humanity.

I find it odd that aetheists feel so directly personally offended by Christian symbols... they are not offered as an «attack», unless you see the sharing of beliefs as an attack upon your own beliefs, in which case I think there is a deeper problem... This billboard IS a direct attack, and as many others have pointed out there is a better way to share your belief as an aetheist.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

I notice what looks to be an «atheist» symbol (as much as atheism can have symbols) there.

In addition to the Sufis who looked upon the law as a means of self - discipline there were those who looked upon the shari`a as a set of symbols standing for hidden religious meanings.

The best thing the atheists can do is just ignore the religious symbols as they do when they accept their paychecks, when and if they get one and in their bank accounts, the atms etc because on our currency there are several religious symbols.

If there were atheist symbols then by all means use them as well.

Putting up an explicitly Christian symbol that is being billed as a special sign from God is just plain insensitive to all the everyone else who died there that day.

In the light of this, the «cleansed» temple becomes itself a symbol of the new order, in which there is no distinction of Jew and Gentile, but a united people of God offers him a pure worship «in spirit and in truth» (as John puts it elsewhere).

As for the athiest victims, they didn't have a symbol of religion or lack of religion so there is no need to display anything for them, other than the memorial site with the names carved in.

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

You also believe that you must take on secret temple names, wear garments (underwear) that has secret symbols that are used in secret rituals in the temple as well as a blood oath that began in 1843, but ended in 1990 when there was a general uproar amongst non-mormons that found out about this particular ritual.

secondly there are compelling new concepts in the communication and popular culture literature reflecting on media as myth, symbol, story telling and ritual».

8:5) of paganism as imperfect symbols of the one god; Paul may even have known the saying of Antisthenes that «by convention there are many gods, by nature, one» (cf. Gal.

There are shifts of emphasis, as from God's relation to the nation, which predominates in the Old Testament, to his loving care for each individual in Jesus» favorite symbol of God as Father.

Since it is a part of his life from early years, there is little chance that alcohol can be used as a symbol of revolt against authority during adolescence.

I have gone so far as to get a tattoo on my hand that is a «gangsforgod» symbol... There is a concept I believe in — for those that can not find a church they can feel alright with, they should form their own God Gang.

There is a peculiar quality about water — perhaps its essential purity and its fundamental place in the economy of all life — which especially fits it for use as a symbol of the forgiveness of sin.

Just as there can be, through interpretation of symbol, an inquiry back toward the origins of consciousness, so there can be in the figures of language, of the intersubjective, of culture, a forward movement of humanity toward its limits.

Here, then, are nine thoughts I want to share with my fellow religious conservatives: 1) As a matter of political liberty I believe there are justifiable reasons to support such issues as prayer in schools and public displays of religious symbolAs a matter of political liberty I believe there are justifiable reasons to support such issues as prayer in schools and public displays of religious symbolas prayer in schools and public displays of religious symbols.

There's a point to this effort, because liberalism has never been the same since Humphrey Bogart was replaced by Woody Allen and Alan Alda as the symbol of what it means to be a liberal.

But there are all sorts of ways of understanding the God symbol, with many thinking of God as a sort of philosophical ideal, much as the ancient Greeks might have done.

The weather is called «hot as hell» and «cold as hell,» and the symbol really is violated there.

There shall be no other gods, and no images, religious forms, or traditions shall be tolerated as symbols through which we pretend that we have captured the essence of God.

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Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

Yet even among teens with what they considered to be a significant affiliation with a religious organization, there was a sense in which teens see themselves as the ultimate authority over which religious symbols are or can be made meaningful.

No doubt there are family resemblances among different concrete practices and symbols of the Christian life, but it is far from clear that they are all expressions and manifestations of some one underlying «structure» or «essence» of faith - as - such.

On the contrary, there is for them a more «realistic» insistence on the use of language as being of necessity the symbols for that which we experience or observe.

Although the Puritans were content to live as part of the British empire and gave genuine obeisance both to Parliament and Crown, there remained an ambiguity and a paradoxical relation between these two central symbols of English society and their function in the center of New England society.

There are no Christ figures in his works (except perhaps George Caldwell in The Centaur) or other sacred symbols; and when the Christian church is portrayed, it usually comes off as an archaic, lifeless institution, run by inept, bungling, morally and spiritually bankrupt clergy.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem with Bible interpretations lately is Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

The sun as a symbol means a lot to me and now every time I look over my shoulder, there it is sitting there.

Four sitting Lapwings have also gone there, which is particularly touching as these birds are a symbol of renewal in the Netherlands and have a significance above and beyond the bird itself.