Why religion is appealing (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 19, 2010, 17:37 (5088 days ago) @ romansh

A completely different take
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> http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=37&blogid=21
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> > After my son died, I had no one to go with
> Hi David - my deepest sympathies
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> I found this closing remark of Joseph Campbell (In A Hero with a Thousand Faces) strangely comforting, a little while after my son died.
> > It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal - carries the cross of the redeemer - not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.-Thank you. It fits.