What is the diffrence between Mythology and Religion?
@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
Canada
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
22 Jul 07
One person's mythology is someone else's religion. Basically mythology is the religions you don't believe in, from what I can see.
Most people would call my religion "mythology" because they see it as part of the past and something "people used to believe in" rather than something that some of us still believe in. *shrugs*
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@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
22 Jul 07
then to me, all religion is mythology?
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
21 Jul 07
Perhaps the difference is is simply time. Myths are from the past, religions are from the present. Seriously, though, I don't think the Roman, Greek, or Norse gods made nearly as much money as the churches and mosques do today, even with the exchange rate of gold
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@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
21 Jul 07
yea, that is a good diffrence... o wait, when mythology was big, back in its day, people paid for temples and things like that too...
so thats not a difference.. hmm then what is?
could it be that they have the same definition?
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
22 Jul 07
Mythology is yesterdays religion. Religion is tomorrows Mythology.
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@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
22 Jul 07
Mythology ...things that you hear from stories told and handed over to generations. Religion - it is an established convention bounded by faith and customs that you oblige to by way of belonging to it..
@missak (3311)
• Spain
27 Jul 07
But modern idea of mith is different, it is related to a story that people tell each other and that has some religious aspects but is not accepted by the official religious authority. You can find lots of mythology in christianism if you search for the Saints biographies. Take for example Saint Christopher ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher ).
@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
27 Jul 07
religion is the official story? what makes it official?
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@missak (3311)
• Spain
27 Jul 07
Sorry, mylot seems have censored most of my post :(
I said that ancient greek philosophers defined mith as an explanation of science using religious terms, to make it more clear for beginers.
Also that usually mith and religion are "two sides of the same coin", mith is the popular version and religion the official authoritie's version. That happens even in christianism, as you can see in my example.
@pessotti (18)
• Brazil
21 Jul 07
Most of the times, mythology are know to not be truth. They are created in the purpose to explain something unnatural, yet in an unnatural way.
Religion is something that even not being comproved, people have strong feelings and believe in something that they know that exists, even if there arent clues about it.
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@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
21 Jul 07
what are you talking about?? you cant disprove zues..
they are BOTH unable to be disproved
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
23 Jul 07
The difference is in the eye of the beholder.To some all religion is mythology.
@CyanShadow (123)
• Netherlands Antilles
11 Sep 07
Well actually mythology is a religion but hardly anyone believes in it any more so it kind of degraded to mythology.
@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
14 Sep 07
well, then, i guess if only .2% of the population is jewish than we can also call jewdiusm a myth in your opinion right?
@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
23 Jul 07
I believe mythology is just a collection of old lore. They're nothing but stories. An example of a myth would be, perhaps my favorite tale, the abduction of Persephone, or the story of Grendel.
Religion, however, is a mix of mythology and "law"(if that's what you want to call it). The Christian religion, for example, has it's mythology (The story of the Great Flood), and it's laws (the 10 commandments).
@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
26 Jul 07
but mythology had law as well, IE "Aristotle, don't anger the gods!"
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