[MD] new blog

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Paco]
The Christian holds on to the bible story from Genesis to Revelation, 
with the Jesus Story as its core, is "inclusive myth" that enables 
comprehensive understanding of the meaning of life and its possibilities..

[Arlo]
I'm not sure if you are arguing this point, or simply saying that the 
Christian believes this to be true, but this is the fallacy of 
exclusion I was referring to; namely that the "Jesus story" (as with 
any and all other particular stories) alone does NOT enable 
comprehensive understanding of the meaning of life and its 
possibilities. That adherents believe it does is a malady we can lay 
at the feet of the "priests". No one would ever argue that a 
comprehensive understanding of life and its possibilities could be 
derived from one Cezanne, and the same applies to any particular 
myth-narrative. This is not to say there is not a wealth of metaphor 
and meaning in the "Jesus story", but that no narrative can ever be 
"all-inclusive". One finger can never point the way all by itself. 
And to get caught up in that, to focus on one finger, is exactly the 
problem with exoteric, or literal, reads of myth.

[Paco]
I think MoQ can help critique quality of living and the quality of 
responses to Mythos.

[Arlo]
I think so too.