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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (7318)4/17/2001 3:25:59 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
Moral monsters can't stand to have their ideology poked at with humor like The Good Soldier Svejk is capable of. Nothing will change or progress in this world until adults can face reality without myths.

As far as fables go some of the best writers, such as Dickens but many others had their imaginations fired in the nursery by having fables read to them. Some of these more powerful fables that I call myths gave people a will and courage to fight against oppression and forced suffering. Just think of the early Christians who pointed to the Jesus myths and disobeyed their Roman masters and rejected Jewish orthodoxy in one fell sweep.

There is a need for fables and I think many of us could not face the day without myths or booze or pills or....
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