"It's a big change from those catchy numbers for pretty girls in hopelessly untrendy outfits," sighs John Vickers, a veteran writer of Eurovision songs for Cyprus.But how could the relatively God-fearing Finns allow such grotesque types to represent them?
Indeed, churches that rely on a relatively impersonal God (like mainstream Protestant denominations) have seen their congregations dwindle over the last 50 years.
Whereas Peter, James, and John, the chief apostles to the circumcised (Galatians 2 6 10), had been relatively unsuccessful, God had led Paul through Asia Minor and Greece "in triumph" and had used him to spread "the fragrance of the knowledge of [God] everywhere" (2 Corinthians 2 14).
For professing a belief in a relatively unpredictable God, we have incredibly predictable defensive patterns whenever people question or critique our religion.
Rudra, (Sanskrit: "Howler"), relatively minor Vedic god and one of the names of Śiva, a major god of later Hinduism.
A relatively new song, God is Dead?, confirms they haven't softened: the sludgy ballad ponders issues of faith through razor-sharp tempo shifts and a primal backbeat.
Five years later, when Lisbon was all but demolished by an enormous earthquake, the unholy refrain was heard again — one preacher even argued that the people of Lisbon had been relatively fortunate, for God had spared more people than he had killed.
The fact is that Whitehead wrote relatively little about God and a great deal about how his philosophy of organism resolves problems of metaphysics and epistemology inherited from a prior age.
The triangle and the eye as recently used in Christianity are relatively new symbols for God.
God remains relatively securely in his world, and the novelist or composer remains equally secure in his or her ability to interact with it in the service of producing aesthetic effects.
"I'm relatively confident that if, god forbid, Jed doesn't sign a new contract, because of his age you go to a tribunal, and the offer we are going to be talking to him about would stand us in good stead because it shows how much we valued him as a player.
