The word myth is used popular when we believe in something that is true but it is not all true. On talk show they often have segments where they try to debunk things that have been said to people. You can use the diets for example. There are myths about diets that people were all the time. The academic definition of the word according to Leonard & McClure “myths are ancient narratives that attempt to answer the enduring and fundamental human questions: How did the universe and the world come to be?
These arguments never get to any particular God. They have all established that the existence can be described by itself; none of this even implies a deity, or a universal consciousness. When you start by rejecting the presumption of a God, all the arguments fall flat on their face. What these three arguments are, are thesis trying to defend the indefensible. Although, these three arguments all agree in the way that they use unfound assumptions to prove what has yet to be proven; they do disagree on the studies of how to prove what really is God.
On one hand you have the philosophers who believe you can speak and write about God, because God is reality. On the other hand, are the Logical Positivists who claim that statements about God have no meaning because they don’t relate to anything that is real. There are a number of philosophers who claimed to have proven conclusively that religious language is meaningful, for example Aquinas’ theory of analogy. An analogy is an attempt to explain the meaning of something which is difficult to understand and forming relations through attributes or relations that are similar. Aquinas rejected univocal and equivocal language when talking about God.
Spiritual people who follow Christianity, or Buddhism are often called just and religious. Of course, this doesn't have to apply everywhere. A christian church, when referring to the followers of the devil, often call them cultists astray
These things serve a multitude of purposes individually, eventually adding up to the universe which serves all of these purposes indiscriminately, so how can we compare it to a single-purposed object like a watch? This is an illogical comparison. There is no clear evidence to support this claim and it falls into the trap of religious bias. I think people would like to believe that the universe has a purpose only because it is one of the many comforting notions of religious belief. Religion is defined as
Creation myths of any culture, arise out of curiousity to experience and understand the world. They are not intended to explain how the universe came into being, but offer symbolic insight and meaning of a realm that lies outside intellectual understanding. [1] By examining the Greek, Near Eastern and Biblical ‘creation myths’ and associated ancient sources, I will seek to explain common elements between them, accounting for their differences, in order to reveal the significance of these narratives, for the people and culture at the time they were created. Fundamental to all types of myths, is the importance of the oral tradition, as they were often intitially performed and have been told and retold over the centuries, each time being reinterpreted and recreated to suit the culture of the time, which reveal details about a particular people, society, politics, societal structure and religion. In the Greek creation myth, The Theogony “is a mythical account of how the Greek gods came into existence and of the relationships and conflicts bewtween them, which led to a divine monarch under the ruler Zeus.”[2] Features include, a polytheistic worldview, with gods being part of the natural environment and personified, to the extent of having male and female sex characteristics.
Introductory Questions 1. What is a myth? A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society 2. What does it mean to be polytheistic? worshipping or believing in more than one god Mesoptamia Wisdom Literature (this is the handout) 1.
They treated claims made about God as cognitive, meaning that the assertions made are meant to be taken as facts or universal truth claims rather than non-cognitive meaning on a personal level for believers. They believed that language was only meaningful if it was analytically or synthetically verified. Analytic statements are a priori (based on logic) and synthetic statements are a posteriori (based on empirical evidence). They created a test called verification principle to see if religious language was meaningful; Statements can only be meaningful if it can be demonstrated. One could argue that the logical positivists were unsuccessful in arguing that religious language is meaningless because the verification principle has many weaknesses.
Anselm (1033–1109) had opposed an Ontological Argument that one understands God as a being and cannot conceive anything greater because God cannot be understood not to exist. On the other hand, another philosopher named Gaunilo objected Anselm’s Ontological Argument by suggesting that the same style of argument can be used to prove the existence of other entities, such as the idea of a greatest possible island. Although this may be the case, Anselm never got the opportunity to plead his case against Gaunilo’s objection. However, there are numerous biblical evidence to help support Anselm’s argument. Anselm’s Ontological Argument states that one understands that God, as a being, cannot be conceived a greater.
However, religion today is not an adequate reference to determine what behaviors or ideas are considered “just action”. In today’s context, a “just action” is a universal rational thought, behavior, or idea that is non bias, knowledgeable, persuasive,