“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Half plus Half = 100.0%, the entire world is incorrect
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Atheists are reactionary, all they care about is repulsing The Bible, Quran, Upanishads, Torah. That’s like repulsing fiction Hamlet because it contains ghost characters, or repulsing Star Wars because it contains “the force” magic themes, or repulsing Lord of the Rings because there are “magic rings”. Science Fiction stories like The Bible can be understood, don’t be afraid of fiction.
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Believers confuse fiction with non-fiction. Bible verse “John 1;1” from 2,000 years ago spells out this problem along with Bible verse “1 John 4:20”. You can not love God or love Jesus, because love of a fiction character or dead person you never met isn’t really love. Again, Bible verse “1 John 4:20” spelled this human brain confusion / educational misunderstanding thousands of years ago.
We have so little information passed down, for all we know 2 million years ago some life form on Earth came up with a way to slip dimensions using more organic like methods that we wouldn’t recognize… and went to other places or other universes. Life on Earth may have been able to access physics and things we don’t even grasp yet in April 2025.
I personally believe there is, !GreatSealUSA@lemm.ee . I believe in cherry-picking from all human history, all spoken/written languages, all symbols of art, world wide, and beyond. And new ideas that are being shared or discovered all the time.
The real arrogance is to say “one book is perfect, ONLY one book is perfect, and all other books in the public library are not equal to the ONE perfect storybook”. That’s the pattern of crisis that this Unified Theory of Fiction and Non-Fiction topic is addressing.
“Book Supremacy”, One perfect book
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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space