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To: malakhi
So in general, would you agree with C.S. Lewis that it is "the myth that happens also to be true" (my paraphrase)?

For me, the answer is a resounding "yes!" Pagan myths often contained grains of truth. Devoid of direct revelation, but still blessed with the natural world, pagan man could come to terms with some of the truths of God.

Where these pagan notions could be used to help express revealed Truth, they are retained.

It is those who see these things as pagan influence and corruption only about things they do not believe, and never about the thigns they do, who fall to the "hypocrite" label.

SD

47,785 posted on 04/21/2003 12:17:58 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Goes back to the notion of myth as explanation. Much of modern science is mythological.
47,832 posted on 04/21/2003 1:30:43 PM PDT by RobbyS
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