versa. Here fundamentalism is born: ‘I know that my religious myth—my chosen shadow—is right so yours can only be wrong.’ When the Christian myth is honored by being emotionally taken in as if it were the literal truth, Christians live lives of meaning and transcendent significance, escaping the madness of a materialist society and coming closer to truth. When it is intellectually taken to be the literal truth, countless innocent people die burning at the stake or at the point of the crusader’s sword. Perhaps even worse, millions wither slowly in the meaninglessness that results from forced
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