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I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the ps...more

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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them a...more

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Myth is what we call other people's religion.

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Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

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One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received, accepted, and even deve...more

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One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North Amer...more

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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they a...more

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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are...more

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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth a...more

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Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of myth...more