In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
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