(November 17, 2016 at 4:43 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Isn't it funny how we can call the Greek gods mythology, but people get offended if you say the same thing about Christian mythology?
Many (Most? Nearly all?) would take offense to any pairing of Christianity with mythology if by mythology you mean "not true". I do not. Greek mythology has many truths within it. Mythology and religion are parallel approaches to spiritual reality. A mythological outlook looks for truths that are not contingent on historical facts. Bibilical exegisis takes this approach as well. The story of the Exodus conveys many truths regardless of its historical accuracy or even if never happened at all. The intellectual poverty of atheism is its inability to recognize and work with truths that are not directly bound to physical facts.