On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Richard Baker wrote: > Dave said: > >> The point being that religion -- whether you consider it the core of >> your being or a mental illness, is beneficial to humankind. > > So is your position that religions are useful rather than true?
Like much of what I "believe", it's a little of each. There's an old saw about the priest who says that the Bible is true ... and some of it happened. Truth and factuality _intersect_ without necessarily being the same thing. They are congruent, but not necessarily identical. Myths encapsulate truth, even though the events in them did not necessarily happen. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l