glass_superman t1_iv04n4n wrote
Reply to comment by jmcsquared in The meaning crisis and language II — We need to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor in order to understand ourselves by Melodic_Antelope6490
Maybe one day in the future all of humanity will unite as one society and we'll realize that we're all brothers and it'll be a real big kumbaya moment like John Lennon's "Imagine".
And in those times people will look back on the charters and constitutions of our nations and see them as myths the same as you view the Bible or Star Wars today.
The Bible is just the old myth. Now we have new ones. They will also prove to be bullshit.
jmcsquared t1_iv18osg wrote
>The Bible is just the old myth. Now we have new ones. They will also prove to be bullshit.
Nobody believes a myth like Star Wars or Harry Potter actually happened. That's the problem. We understand that these are fictional works created by people.
What about the Epic of Gilgamesh? Again, there is no confusion about whether it actually happened, but that poem is very old, at least as old as the bible.
The problem is, the west has become obsessed and fixated on one particular myth, the monotheism from Judaism and Christianity. The middle east has done the same with Islam. The confusion is categorical: without this obsession, nobody would believe that these works are literally true in the sense of reflecting objective history.
But that's what dogmatic religion has brought to us.
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