Can you explain OBJECTIVELY how your religion is more true than any another, and how the stories relating to your religion differ from a myth or a fable? If you answer "because mine is true" or anything lame like that, there must be no difference between your religion and other cults/myths/fables, because that is not objective and would be just as good of an answer for any other belief.
2006-12-28 11:15:05 · 13 answers · asked by Boris Badenov 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion is that which we believe, and myth is what other people believe.
2006-12-28 11:19:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The difference relates to the nature of story. A story is simply a story when it is told a few times. However, when it is passed on from generation to generation and is embelished as it is retold and retold, the story takes on a life of it's own. As myth (story) was embelished with numerous retelling, it took on a life of it's own and that life is called "religion."
I am a Christian. In relation to the religious aspects, Christianity is no better than any other. However, as a matter of faith, I know it is better...not just for me but better in general. Not because I think it's more factual (because it isn't), but because there is a power to it that religion falls so short of that it isn't even funny. I have no interest in proving this to any skeptic or convincing you of it, for I, personally, have no need to do so. You must engage with your own faith-journey. Mine will do you little good...especially on an online posting. If we were personal friends and could sit down over coffee, it would be a different story. Pun intended.
2006-12-28 11:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real difference is that myths are religions that have already died. Or, religion is myths that havent expired yet...
gwhiz - could you BE anymore vague?? I truly doubt your stories and if you care to SHARE THEM rather than brag about them, I would be happy to pick them apart and tell you the REAL meaning of those alleged "miracles."
2006-12-28 11:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a wide-spread belief, and a myth is a local or dead belief.
I awaut the day Christianity will be relagated to a myth. Nothing against Chrisitans personally, but I will laugh. (not that I'll be alive,but...)
2006-12-28 11:20:57 · answer #4 · answered by Kharm 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
with the aid of fact the mythology talked of gods that ought to be flawed to be unquestionably seen. The christians necessary a god they could press on those that doesn't unquestionably even remotely seem actual yet is shoved down everybody's throat anyhow.
2016-10-06 03:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by boland 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is institutionalized myth that has been dogmatized and mounded into a colossal pile of crap religionists call ultimate truth. AND Christians who insist that what they believe is not a religion, you are full of crap.
2006-12-28 11:38:25 · answer #6 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian. I don't use the word riligion to describe Christianity, I see it as a relationship with the one true God. I have Christ in my life everyday and I have a personal friend in God. I feel nothing when I read the odysee
2006-12-28 11:25:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The unreal and cultural stories. Like mixing culture and religion.
2006-12-28 11:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only difference is perspective. What is person A' s relgion is person B's myth.
Blessings,
Zimmi
2006-12-28 11:31:21 · answer #9 · answered by Zimmia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only true religion that exists is the ministry of widows and the fatherless in their time of affliction.
http://www.handlethetruth.net
2006-12-28 11:18:59 · answer #10 · answered by truthhandl3r 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋