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A Teaching Inspired by 9-11 and Joseph Campbell

Religion often separates us because it’s read literally rather than metaphorically. Thus the religious stories are not interpreted as mythology, but fact. The results penetrate us: the Catholic world was made by a anthropomorphic deity only several thousand years ago; the Muslim world where woman are often viewed inferior and treated like objects; a Jewish world where ancestral land rights promised in ancient texts are the pretext for dominating another people.

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