Diiference between religion now, and myths?

Question

How is religion now any different from mythology from ancient times?
Like the bible(not to single out chrstinity or anything) if your read it in a literary or historical, not religious manner, it is just like that of Greece and Rome, And Egypt,etc (besides being monotheistic).
Just wandering how you justify this to be true but can completely deny the others, when your main religious documents are so much alike!?!?!

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so then that's what I'm asking, How can Christians and other religions call it mythology, when they are so alike, Are they blind to this?

Answer 1

Hardly any. Humans are always curious to know what would happen tomorrow, what would happen when they die. They want to be deluded by a thought that they will live forever, somehow.

They're both the same tale told in different ways.

Answer 2

"A mythology is someone else's religion, different enough from your own for its absurdity to be obvious."

If you are told something repeatedly, from a very young age, by people you trust (your parents) that god exists, you would not question it. If someone else has reasonably similar beliefs (with the religion having a large number of followers), you would not question that either. If a third person has remarkably different beliefs (like god is a Flying Spaghetti Monster or an Invisible Pink Unicorn), you would see the absurdities in that immediately, because it is so different from what you would accept as believable (especially if it is a belief system with not many followers). They would accept Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc as religions (some fundies would say false religions), but they would not accept Pastafarianism as a religion. They would consider Norse or ancient Egyptian beliefs as myths (not enough followers of those religions today).

The sad part is that many of them are blind to this.

Answer 3

Actually you make a huge assumption about any religion when you say "you completely deny the others". I hear a lot of people use this to try and justify their arguments.
You are correct about how similar the religions are and that is exactly how I justify my beliefs. Whether a person believe in many gods or just one, they still believe in a higher power do they not?

Answer 4

All religion is mythology. There is no difference. The adherants of a particular religion will often view their religion as separate from myth in that they believe IT to be the truth or reality, while they view other religions to be myth or fantasy. In other words, the difference exists only in their own minds.

Answer 5

There is plenty of similarity because Satan copies God. There are only 2 religions - God and man. Mythology is man.
Noah came through the flood believing in God, but Noah's grandson Nimrod, wife Semiramis and son Tammuz rebelled against God and mythology began along with numerous false religions. It began in Babel - Babylon and it is ending in Babylon. Christ began teaching in Israel and Christ will return in Israel.

Answer 6

Time

Answer 7

They aren't myths. Many, MANY of us still worship/honor the hold gods. And many of our families never stopped.
So in a way they are ALL myth and ALL religion. No difference. Only the big three don't see that. The rest of us see it perfectly clear.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It's time that does it, time and Christians persecuting those that worshiped the Pagan Gods.

Answer 10

Your religion is myth for others and others religion i myth for you. Both are religion and both are myth simultaneously.