Myths and Scripture are Fayerie Tales
Over in Facebook, a close friend of mine has been leaving comments on posts referencing Christian ideas to the point that I had to make a comment on it...and I like to share here, my thoughts on it from the point of view of a Fayerie Traditionalist. He commented on a post and this is a paraphrase of my response: "...and to me the Bible is just another fairy tale. So citing the Bible to me is like saying Frodo really did destroy Sauron by destroying the ring. I really dont care. If that myth serves your life cool. But it has no bearing on my life. Its not my myth." And naturally he private messaged me: "You know calling the Bible a fairy tell i have to ask what do to hurt you what driving it like that because I love and I can tell the difference between anger and hurt." So, I wrote a post on my "Witchy Page" a short diatribe: "To me, all myths and legends, all religious books are Fayerie Tales. And most people that hear that get knee-jerk reaction, especially when it concerns their most beloved beliefs. For instance, when I call the Christian Bible a "fairy tale", they tend to feel that I am attacking, not only their religion, but, themselves. That just isnt the case. The same goes for the followers of the Quran, the Tanakh and Torah, the Iliad and Odyssey, the Norse Sagas and the Upanishads. These are all STORIES, passed down and collected by adherents of their faith or by historians. Some are Literalists. They feel that their books have some sort of provenance above other stories and that their stories are completely true. They were written down and told by the various priesthoods and historians of the time. But, in the end, in my opinion, they are stories. Does this invalidate them as holding some sort of truth? No. Most record historical events which have been confirmed by archeologists and anthropologists. They can instruct in life lessons. They can hold some deep cosmological significance to a practitioner who builds a relationship with mentioned entities.