Religion is like fairy tales for adults in many ways. The Christ figure, and many other central figures of other religions, are like symbols of the classic definition of a hero that satisfies the emotional desire to be a hero or to have one. Something people inherit from the time they are children, whether the hero is real or not.
Religions and their stories to go with them are like fairy tales for adults invented to help them cope with everyday life. But I would argue that a regular fairy tale, with magic and dragons and damsels, Prince Charming, and Fairy Godmothers, as no different. Every story has a moral, and the characters represent the kind of people that we come across in daily life. The figure of Jesus Christ is a mythical hero type Christians want to strive to be like.
If the differences between what is real and what is make-believe were better taught early on, religion would easier be dismissed for better things to look to. Just reading into all the varying but similar myths and fairy tales from all other cultures and history at an early age.
I am a huge fan of fantasy and mythology. And it must be my atheism that helps me to appreciate it for just what it is and understand it so well.
Religions and their stories to go with them are like fairy tales for adults invented to help them cope with everyday life. But I would argue that a regular fairy tale, with magic and dragons and damsels, Prince Charming, and Fairy Godmothers, as no different. Every story has a moral, and the characters represent the kind of people that we come across in daily life. The figure of Jesus Christ is a mythical hero type Christians want to strive to be like.
If the differences between what is real and what is make-believe were better taught early on, religion would easier be dismissed for better things to look to. Just reading into all the varying but similar myths and fairy tales from all other cultures and history at an early age.
I am a huge fan of fantasy and mythology. And it must be my atheism that helps me to appreciate it for just what it is and understand it so well.
