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Old 10-09-2005, 03:41 AM
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By that token all religions would be myths. There are no substanciated gods which is central to most religions existance. The afterlife would be a myth as both a blissful post-life existance and reincarnation are unsubstanciated, the soul would be a myth and places like heaven, hell, nirvana, purgatory all myths until substanciated.
Your point?

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Old 10-09-2005, 03:53 AM
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I'd say belief. If you believe in something or that something happened, it's religion. If you don't, it's mythology. Then again, I don't believe the Greek myths, but I believe in the idea of the gods- or, more appropriately- what they represent.
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:39 PM
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It's not either/or; the comparison is not apt at all. All religions have mythologies attached to them, even if they don't have stories of gods, prophets, and heroes, they still have some kind of mythic narrative.

Religion is belief and practice, mythology is narrative. Religion informs mythology, and mythology informs religion.
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When does a Religion become a Mythology???
There is no point at which one turns into the other. Most religions have mythology to portray the ineffable, intangible, immaterial, and spiritual.
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There is no point at which one turns into the other. Most religions have mythology to portray the ineffable, intangible, immaterial, and spiritual.
True, but when the mythological portrayal of the ineffable, intangible, immaterial, and spiritual, by the use of allegory, metaphor, parable, and simile, is interpreted by the contemporary custodians of the religion as historical reality and in turn that understanding foistered upon the followers, then superstition prevails and it will soon become a dead religion like all the others in whom true understanding was lost.
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A myth is a story meant to explain something we don't know based on what is already known. Therefor, scientific theories are technically myths. Myths, religious or scientific, are not necessarily wrong.
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