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To: Greg or e who wrote (24429)	4/10/2012 5:35:35 PM
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Campbell was happy to embrace any and every belief except Christianity. Not even a 1/2 truth as usual , Campbell saw Judaism , Islam & Christianity all cut from the same cloth & so they were , this is undeniable seen easily just in mingling of the mythologies & doctrines of montheism all drawing on the traditional outlines of the OT . Go over to the ME , Sunni's & Shias still to this day bitterly *embattled over theology & doctrine which has led to deaths of millions just this last 2 decades* , so Campbell was completely correct in his assessments. You on the otherhand are completely clueless , pathetically so .

To: Greg or e who wrote (24429)	4/10/2012 5:48:31 PM
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You seem quite caught up in some befuddlement when you keep mistaking "Christianity" as all one faith which thru time has proven a myriad of different theologies, moralities in localized culture bound doctrinal adaptations that have changed all the way down . Even today you have Christian sects, the fastest growing like Mormons you have admitted already are not true/real "Christianity ". Just an obvious thing you have already undermined your own argument from the start , my ... we do contradict ourselves so often. (And tell that to Mitt Romney, where's your tolerance of their beliefs that Jesus taught ? ) It was Joseph Campbell's observation that myths in order to continue to retain the power of the symbolism must be grounded in respect to new expanded views of the world around us & new cosmology which has touched many thinking Christians & deists alike who have had no problems with accepting new revelations of science & see not the slightest problem still retaining their faith .

To: Greg or e who wrote (24429)	4/10/2012 5:58:44 PM
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If for instance you could not imagine yourself praying & connecting with "Jesus" in a Mormon church you were visiting think what does that say about your "faith" so dependent on such minor differences of doctrines & external settings ? Something must be really missing from your "theology" if such small things make your world go so quickly askew when you should be immersed in the "good & eternal" spirit wherever you are ? So you are a Christian most only when surrounded by what is comfortable for you & where you are , surrounded by familiars & your localized beliefs & rituals ... well how special is that ? These "others" that profess to love Jesus as much as you are not "real" ...well you have just lost the argument then by admitting this, now look back 1500yrs & see there's never been a true consensus at all about any of this . Though many religions all contain essences of the same truth about our lives, growing up responsibly in a social order & address problems of general cosmology of the world around us . That world has grown dramatically in later centuries as has the universe, but nothing wrong if people want to believe ancient Jews sailed to the Americas 4000yrs ago & brought tablets with them ..if thats what faith has you wishing to believe to fit in <g See how it works ?