04/09/2012

The Truth of Religion

By Alexander Atkins

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, The Power of Myth, Doubleday (1988).

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