Yes .. I know
Myths can be true or false.
I believe and you disbelieve .. what can I say?
Myth is only true, if it teach some sort of universal wisdom...like if you learn from a story about right and wrong (hence, morality), then it is true...
...BUT they are as fictional as Harry Potter story or the Lord of the Rings. Myths don't present any true, historical or factual story.
Myths are like parables that Jesus tell in the gospels. The story contained meanings that have values, but it doesn't mean the parables he tell were true stories of someone real or some real events.
Some people might think that I am anti-religion because I don't believe that anything story regarding to Adam and Eve to be real historical people. The fact is I do happen to like Genesis story of Adam, but only from the perspectives of:
- ...as a literary character, mythological character, not a historical one.
- ...the story may not be historical, but I like good storytelling.
- ...and from the above literary perspective, storytelling is there to entertain.
- ...from anthropological perspective, I am interested in what people back then, believe in the story they read or heard from.
Surely you have watch movies or read some novels, that you have enjoy for their entertainment values. So what I enjoy or find interesting, doesn't mean they have to be real, true or historical.
If I criticise or analyse a story, finding faults with everything, like it not be historically true, then I will never be able to enjoy a good book or good movie.
The things between you and me, is that I can tell that the stories of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and David are not real, but I can still enjoy the stories about them.
My problem is with you - not "you" personally, but as "you" as in "believers" general - is that you take them too seriously, and trying to force other people thinking they are historically true. The problem with this sort of attitude, is that it lead to dishonesty.
The problem is not really the scriptures themselves, but the people who interpret them or those attempting to prove something or another about certain events in the scriptures being real.
I also have disagreement with some Muslims and Christians, who attempt to use specific verses in their scriptures, and trying to convince others they have scientific values. Again, it is not really the scriptures that I have problems with; the problems really lie with those dishonest believers attempting to twist the verses out of context, for their ego and agenda.
If any Muslim or Christian use their scriptures in such fashion, then I will use their own scriptures against them, to show how wrong their interpretations are.
