Sentence examples for primitive god from inspiring English sources

Micah effectively says that people can continue to fantasize about a primitive god that will be appeased by bulls and blood and sacrifice, the re-creation of bloody warfare in the slaughterhouse of the Temple.

Speaking softly to his sister, Felice explains why they can't leave this "primitive God-knows-where place," as Clare derisively calls it.

In the 1980's, when he began collecting mugs shaped like primitive gods, "tiki was considered ugly," Mr. Kirsten said.

No, I don't know what a "sexual volcano" is either, but presumably it's where inner-city kids go to sacrifice missionaries and dance suggestively in honour of their primitive gods.

"Do rain forests," suggested a primitive tribal god, who was known only as a clicking noise.

The central belief of Christian orthodoxy — the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross — Spong, now retired, pronounced "a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God".

I'm comparing OSes to primitive humans, for god's sake.

It's all very well to assert that it's childish or primitive to believe in God.

For W. Robertson Smith, a British biblical scholar who first published his theory in the ninth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1875 89), sacrifice was motivated by the desire for communion between members of a primitive group and their god.

He went on to describe the Islamic God as "a primitive, Bedouin and anthropomorphic God," and Muhammad as "a sex maniac" who bent his own rules "to appease his voracious desire".

She mentioned opposition to stem cell research and to the teaching of evolution as examples of "a wall between science and religion" that still stands, and then concluded her thought: "That we're still killing people in the name of God is primitive but true".