| I think you misunderstand the importance of mythology, and dependency on the bible is problematic.
All primitive and civilized people have mythology. Mythlogy transmits culture and transitions the young to adulthood. When people have a shared mythology they will suffer far less from emotional and growing up problems. Without a shared mythology, we turn our parents and people close to us, into the heros and monsters we need for the growing up process. This throws many people into psychoanalysis, to work through their private mythologies. Not a good thing.
Especially Greek mythology teaches us a lot about human nature, and civilization. People in the history books do not do this. Worse, those people in our history books teach us war is a good thing and great people are the ones to who lead their nation to war. This is causing us a huge problem right now! It is a mythology of conquest and conquer that is not helpful to us in a modern world. It is excessively slanted to make people think their own nation is superior and it is devoid of equal information of others.
This bias is one of the things terribly wrong with the bible, which begins with the bias of Hebrews and their tribal God who favors them. Then the bias of Christians. And this progresses to the bias of Arabs in the Koran. These religious bias built on the superstition of a tribal God who has favorite people, is very problematic, and does not provide the information necessary to democracy. The social order of holy books is one of kings and slaves. Not a good model for democracy. Greek myth is about brothers and sisters who are gods, and democracy is an imitation of them. One absolute God can not teach us what brother and sister gods can teach us about democratic relationships and coming to understand life.
I hope you will reconsider what you think is important. |