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  …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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