Reply #109: The "fairy tale" quote of yours was on another thread.

[hunter]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=39299&mesg_id=40867

I was probably still carrying it around when I came to this one.

Mythology is part of what makes us human. We tell stories. Many of the stories that have been preserved by the various religious traditions are very richly meaningful, and directly applicable to our daily lives, even when we are not ourselves part of the religious tradition preserving them. It is unfortunate when "literalists" of various sorts, either atheist or fundamentalist do not recognize, or in some cases, actively deny these meanings.