To: francisandbeans
Religion is based on myth. If you chip away enough myth, religion dies. This is a serious mission creep. Now he wants to undermine all strands of Islam. The Old and New Testament are also vulnerable to the same kind of criticism
To: TigerLikesRooster
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.
121 posted on
09/28/2001 8:50:47 AM PDT by
mercy
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