I came at Joseph Campbell from a “fuck Christianity” perspective. I was really into what he had to say because I loved the idea of undermining the fundamentalists. It was an interesting jumping-off point after being in the middle of all that shit as a kid and watching people make decisions based on what seemed illogical. But Campbell turned out to be somebody who could actually give me the facts about mythology and archetypes and break apart the dogmatic views of religion in a way I could understand and appreciate. Professor McCaffrey really pushed us to see beyond the obvious and see the
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