Why do
you think ancient people started creating music?
you really
think ancient people in the middle east were describing underwater volcanoes?
To
think ancient peoples would waste the fat and organs?
Not exact matches
One would have
thought that a visitor from the creator of the Universe would visit (or at least mention) the millions up millions of Chinese and other Asians, all the
people spread throughout North and South America, the Australian Aboriginals, the
ancient Europeans or the Subsaharan Africans.
Who cares what the bible says, it is just a compliation of
ancient stories told by
people who
thought the earth was flat.
The claim was a simple thing to do in
ancient times because scientifically ignorant
people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so
people all
thought that a god or gods controlled it all.
Now
think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good
people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by
ancient beliefs.
Sameth opines that in
ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized
person,» and «the gods were
thought of as gender - fluid.»
Using all available means, they examine the ways of living and
thinking, the customs and institutions, and the life - situations of the
people originally addressed by the
ancient writers in order to determine the intended meaning.
What helped the spread of Christianity are the facts that, 1)
ancient people believed myths to be true and 2) violence & brutality come in handy when enforcing law... or so they
thought.
A microphone allows its user to impose his voice, and thereby his
thought and personality, on many more
people than an
ancient orator could.
It's pretty clear from these comments that
people who
think ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are real aren't the brightest
people.
You really have to wonder about
people who
think ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are real.
However, if we do not assume the Greek idea of a temporary separation of body and soul, then we can
think of the resurrection as affecting the whole
person, all at once — as the
ancient Jews
thought of it.
The knowledge we have today can't be compared to
ancient harmful and ignorant myths, although I admit that being ignorant must feel very comfortable for some and I
think people are free and have the right to be stupid, but no one has the right to make it sound as though their personal nonsense is the universal and inflexible truth.
Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and
think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to
people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is
ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.
One of the worst things about the religious
people is that they
think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an
ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.
Some
people may
think there is a god, but
think the Bible was some crap written by some ignorant
ancient people.
Judgment alone never comprised the whole of what
ancient peoples, least of all the Jews,
thought government was about.
The
ancient hebrew
people were a circular
thinking people, not linear.
By rebutting some of their public statements and postings we hope that some
people whose minds have still not fallen into the intellectual abyss displayed by most theists might be spared the damage to their
thinking abilities before they get suck (er) ed too deeply into a routine of closed minded parroting of
ancient fairy tales.
The God who, the
ancient story tells us, led the
people of Israel with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night can lead us by the clouds of the subconscious and the fires of imagination as truly as by consciously studied
thought.
There are only gullible
people like yourself, who have been suckered into the
ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical
thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!
After all, if we only seek to meet the spiritual needs of
people, we have fallen into the
ancient trap of dualism (mentioned above),
thinking that it is only the spiritual aspects of life that matter.
Although
people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who
think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the
ancient Jews, and as such are only history.
I
think the «Old Testament» is a bit derogatory... Regardless, I agree that they do tell the history of the
ancient Jewish
people and their religion.
By homologizing these deities (i.e., the lineage ideology of
ancient Japan) with the ancestor worship of the common
people, the government
thought to create a feeling of national unity and dedication.
On the other hand,
people who are the products of a prevailingly analytical, logical habit of mind - possessors of modern Greek - Western modes of
thinking, rather than the
ancient Hebraic - Eastern quality of
thought - instinctively and habitually find themselves delayed, snagged, or otherwise discontented or dismayed by any absence in the text of specific agreement in detail, by any appearance of the inconsistent, whether overt or only implied.
The same line of
thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the
Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all
peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.
I believe you are
thinking of a time that came much later than the Bible, after many of the
ancient libraries were burned by marauders and leaders who did not want the common
people to have access to the studies of those who had come before them.
Although Isabel reads widely in philosophy, and although she lives in a country where» however much territory secularization has claimed» there are still abundant vestiges of Christian belief, not to mention
people who continue to practice that
ancient faith, she seems almost never to
think about such matters.
It is therefore a mark of modern
thought that it offers sharper and more sustained attention to the nature and the rights of the human
person than did
ancient thought.
It can not know for sure what
ancient people thought about death or even the things they made.
Moreover, so many Christians seem to
think that the story of the virgin birth confers uniqueness on Jesus, whereas the fact is that miraculous birth, without human fatherhood, was a familiar explanation of distinguished
persons in all the
ancient world.
«There were a lot of
people in the
ancient world who
thought that lying could serve a greater good,» says Ehrman, an expert on
ancient biblical manuscripts.
(For those of you reading this and
thinking that I'm speaking a bunch of gibberish: Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the saving of the Jewish
people from an evil man named Haman, who plotted to kill the Jews in
Ancient Persia.
Also, commenting on Paleo diet, I'm not sure just what it is, except that it's a diet of what some
people think that our
ancient ancestors ate ten thousand or more years ago.
Most
people think that paper cutting art is founded on the
ancient German art called scherenschnitte.
These studies showing greater genetic diversity in
ancient populations suggest it may not be so far - fetched to
think that Siberians could have come into contact with
people carrying Australasian genes, and then taken those signatures to the Americas over subsequent generations.
«Sixteenth - century Europeans developed a taste for meat that was just this side of rotting, based on what they
thought the
peoples of
ancient Rome and Greece ate,» Davies writes.
People were once
thought to have
ancient psyches ill - suited to modern existence, but they have adapted much more quickly than early theories had predicted
«Most
people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,» says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark.
«When
people think about our
ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.
Despite being
thought of as an
ancient disease, cholera still affects 47 countries world - wide and claims the lives of nearly 100 thousand
people a year.
With DNA analyses of enough
ancient people, Lazaridis says, «I
think it will be possible to reconstruct the whole timeline of what happened in Lebanon and other parts of the world.»
Experiments show that both canines and capuchins prefer those of us who help other
people, hinting that morality may have a more -
ancient origin than
thought
Many
people thought the very
ancient zircon crystals couldn't have formed in impact craters, but we now know they could have.»
If you
think that
ancient people primarily used garlic because of its delicious taste, then you are far from the truth.
Yes, I do
think it's important to point out that there are some of us (I'm celiac, but
people with other immune diseases like the two commentors above) who can never have gluten,
ancient grains or not.
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