origin-myth

The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people__ fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one__ faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus_ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God__ representative on Earth.