RE: Are Myths Valuable?
August 3, 2019 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2019 at 1:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
There may once have been a Jesus. But Christianity certainly doesn't Clarify that issue, does it?
It may not be completely fictional. But telling of facts mixed with fabrication only make sense if the fabrication is essential to serving the need of the myth. When the myth injects and clings to the fabrication in order to serve the need, it certainly would not shoot itself in the foot by providing means for distinguishing its own fabrication from any grains of truth it contains.
So in that sense, a myth with grains of truth seldomly provides a better means of learning what the truth is than pure fabrication. You have to already know what the truth is to separate the truth in a myth from the fabrication.
It may not be completely fictional. But telling of facts mixed with fabrication only make sense if the fabrication is essential to serving the need of the myth. When the myth injects and clings to the fabrication in order to serve the need, it certainly would not shoot itself in the foot by providing means for distinguishing its own fabrication from any grains of truth it contains.
So in that sense, a myth with grains of truth seldomly provides a better means of learning what the truth is than pure fabrication. You have to already know what the truth is to separate the truth in a myth from the fabrication.
