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[Platt Holden]

> [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.

I presume the same applies to the myths of science and so called "critical 
thinking" taught by academics. 

Platt