[mercy]

There's one thing wrong with your analysis. You haven't the basest understanding of the word 'myth'. To your simple cognitive powers the pop culture bastardization of the word is just fine. You think it a synonym for 'lie'. Even the Greek myths, which were argueably not of devine inspiration were somehow able to convey all of the nuances of human psychology at least 2500 years before psychology became a modern science. A myth can be a powerful medium of conveyance for the deepest secrets of the human psyche ... and perhaps even of secrets beyond the physical world. Men from time to time step out of time and space and then tell us a story about their experience. To toss these works from another world off as 'mere myths' is to dehumanize mankind.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #121 Myth is what people want to believe. It is not fact. It is one of basic human drive. That I agree. However, it does not make it fact. Human being always want to mentally rearrange the real world into what they like. Sometimes competing versions have to be sorted out in whatever mechanisms. My position is simple: There is a strong drive in most human beings to rearrange the reality into more psychologically satisfying version. They do it even if they may suffer from badly flawed judgements from ditorted world view.