"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 as facts, then you are in trouble." Joseph Campbell
by Anexplorer (PM , CC ) on Saturday September 27, 2008 @ 9:24 AM
Hi Anexplorer, The truths are metaphorically transmitted in culture after culture as people search for meaning, spirituality, religion, beliefs. When you try to make them facts, you take away their enduring power. Fundamentalists, right-wing Christians, actually do Christianity an injustice. They make it vulnerable to science, to the knowable. Religion is a mystery story, metaphorically told to keep it as such.
I'm eternally fascinated by the truths underlying religious beliefs.
Or at least the search for them.
The truths are metaphorically transmitted in culture after culture as people search for meaning, spirituality, religion, beliefs. When you try to make them facts, you take away their enduring power. Fundamentalists, right-wing Christians, actually do Christianity an injustice. They make it vulnerable to science, to the knowable. Religion is a mystery story, metaphorically told to keep it as such.
p.s. The truths underlying them are the metaphors.
What would religion do without metaphors?