Religious Poll

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

Religious belief is a belief structure in which untruth is a fundamental necessity. You can say it should be viewed metaphorically which means it depends on personal interpretation.

A very important point to make and understand.

A metaphor has nothing to do with literal truth. The conflict between science and religion comes into play when the metaphorical truth of any religion's teaching is considered by believers to be literally true when there is either no evidence that it can be, or an abundance evidence that it cannot.

This is why Joseph Campbell once said that all myths are true for their time. IMO some of them are true for all time, because they attempt to illustrate or express some fundamental bit of human experience or understanding that cannot be expressed as well or as powerfully in any other way. Whether or not they are literally true is irrelevant if you're not hung up on the idea that they must be so in order to have any merit.