S///R///W/B Mythless Patterns
Terrance F. Flaherty
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 27 22:46:55 CDT 2000
MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
> << This list is sofa king mean. Why identify an apparent weak spot in Doug
> M's argument and than proceed to assault his person?>>
>
> Because he asks for it.
That's difficult to determine in this medium.
>
> <<Ironic, I think, because it is not Doug or Christianity that is to blame
> for so much of the horror that TRP portrays, but it is the denial of myth.
> Joseph Campbell said, "we are losing our myths", TRP shows â¦etc.>>
>
> Joseph Campbell once noted that religion is misunderstood myth and that myth
> is someone else's religion.
Grave's wrote the same.
The points you make in your post are somewhat
> beside the point.
Which ones?
Use of myth abounds in GR, of course, and myths are free
> to interpretation; that has little to do with insisting on a dogmatic and
> absolutist Christian interpretation.
True.
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