Sentences with phrase «think ancient peoples»

To think ancient peoples would waste the fat and organs?

you really think ancient people in the middle east were describing underwater volcanoes?

Why do you think ancient people started creating music?

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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