Gods, Goddesses. Chariots in the sky. Tridents under water. Charming stuff. Now. But do we think the Greeks of that time referred to their stories as myths? Those Greek myths were their religion. That’s how they understood their place in the world around them. Those stories were as real to the ancient Greeks as our bible stories are to us today.
We’re a religious lot, we human beings. We always have religious explanations for things we otherwise don’t understand. We must just be programmed that way. I have to wonder though, how will the future treat today’s religious beliefs? Not in a few years or a hundred years, but on a grander scale. Maybe in a thousand years, or several thousand years. Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhists; will todays religions be as charming and irrelevant to the future as Greek Mythology is to us now?
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