Thread: The New "Tolerance"
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Old 07-06-2006, 12:49 PM   #6
Flint
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[religion and myth]

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
How do you differentiate them, specifically?
I think that "religion" is a settled-upon, codified system which defines a set of stated truths, and the accompanying attributes and behaviors which are imperative to that system. Somewhere deep down inside the bureaucratic belly of religion, there are many garbled mythologies which have been assimilated.

Also, we are surrounded by myth which may or may not have anything to do with religion. See: Joseph Campbell.
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