RE: Mythology and Religion
November 8, 2016 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2016 at 10:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure that irrational -has- a religion. I think it;s rather an issue of separating the myths around which a religion forms, and the religion itself.
To say, for example, that the stories of the NT are mythical will not make christianity, the religion, mythical. The religion isn't a myth in any sense. We can all go kick a church full of believers engaging in rituals if we want test that one.
I suppose it's kind of amusing to note that some religions are mythical, or at least legendary, in that our perceptions of them are nothing more than christian propaganda -regarding- them. We don't really know much, if anything at all, about them. That;s one of the difficulties that pagan reconstructionists face. They may not be simply basing their religion on a set of myths regarding gods, but on a set of myths regarding the religion of those gods.
To say, for example, that the stories of the NT are mythical will not make christianity, the religion, mythical. The religion isn't a myth in any sense. We can all go kick a church full of believers engaging in rituals if we want test that one.
I suppose it's kind of amusing to note that some religions are mythical, or at least legendary, in that our perceptions of them are nothing more than christian propaganda -regarding- them. We don't really know much, if anything at all, about them. That;s one of the difficulties that pagan reconstructionists face. They may not be simply basing their religion on a set of myths regarding gods, but on a set of myths regarding the religion of those gods.
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