Households perform rituals for certain gods, especially those closest to their village, more often, reflecting the symbolic identification of villages with local deities in Tibetan communities (Pirie 2006).
She is the coeditor with Bettina Bergo of Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God" (Columbia, 2008) and has published widely on issues of responsibility within and beyond legality.
How much more consoling, really, to worship lots of gods — to make grateful images of them, to have certain gods work for you as personal helpers and aides — than to be rescued from such comfiness by the irascible and nearinvisible singularity that is Yahweh.
Neither must we have mothers under the influence of the poets scaring their children with a bad version of these myths --telling how certain gods, as they say, 'Go about by night in the likeness of so many strangers and in divers forms'; but let them take heed lest they make cowards of their children, and at the same time speak blasphemy against the gods.
Certain gods, such as the god of rain (called Tlaloc in central Mexico), were found throughout the area.
A study released last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showed that 69 percent of Americans are absolutely certain God exists, and another 17 percent are fairly certain.
Liberalism seeks to define and justify the legitimate powers of government in terms of certain natural or God-given individual rights.
It is knowledge proceeding "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things" (IIp40s2).
"The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things, and the more we understand things in this way, the more we understand God" (Vp25d).
Reason does this from "the fact that we have common notions and adequate ideas of the properties of things," while intuition proceeds "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God".
