Although people of all countries, eras, and stages of civilization have developed myths that explain the existence and workings of natural phenomena, recount the deeds of gods or heroes, or seek to justify social or political institutions, the myths of the Greeks have remained unrivaled in the Western world as sources of imaginative and appealing ideas.
Last Judgment, a general, or sometimes individual, judging of the thoughts, words, and deeds of persons by God, the gods, or by the laws of cause and effect.
Franklin was born and brought up in Boston at a time when moral perfection meant absolute obedience in mind and deed to all of God's commands, something seen as impossible for mere human beings.
He said: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites... .. He called them "blind guides," "whitewashed tombs," "serpents" and the "brood of vipers" because their beliefs and deeds contradicted the word of God.
I would add religious "blasphemy" to the crimes of ISIS, doing their proud brutal deeds in the name of God -- which is an utter offense to all people of faith.
Deeds of ancestors, heroes, gods, or animals sacred to particular peoples were chanted and memorized long before there was any writing with which to record them.
These practices were informed by a highly developed mythic cycle, describing a distinctive cosmology and the deeds of the Old Norse gods, giants, and demons.
He also wrote a book called Ethica or Scito te ipsum ("Know Thyself"), a short masterpiece in which he analyzed the notion of sin and reached the drastic conclusion that human actions do not make a man better or worse in the sight of God, for deeds are in themselves neither good nor bad.
The deeds of the "negative saints" of God are terrible, and it is only right that they should somehow suffer.
There is no religion, not even the Christian religion, holding the title deed to God.
