2d • A Dragon's Voice
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.
But. But the hold they have on a person or a group of people does not make it beholden upon another person or group of people that it should be taken as a truth, merely because one group of people feel it should.
I am glad you find some comfort or some answer to life from the Bible, but it has as much relevance to me as recalling something that Hermione Granger said because you like Harry Potter."
This touched a lot of nerves...
The thing is, Christians do not tend to understand how other Christians have weaponized their faith AGAIN. This is not the first, or the last time, their STORIES will destroy lives. He knows I was raised under Christian Fundamentalism...that I was BEAT due to the choice of another faith...and I am watching my fellow kin RELIVE or getting first hand experience in the Satanic Panic that is brewing up again.
When it is Christian Nationalism literally hijacking our government, like their ancestors did before...
Of course I am angry. Of course I am hurt. But, your Stories arent MY STORIES. The Bible has no personal bearing in how I justify my politics. It has no bearing on how I justify my choices and decisions. It is not the story I go to. I have my own stories I go to...but unlike him, I KNOW that these stories are just that...not literally true. Not PERFECT. Written by patriarchal men with their toxic and unwise beliefs and opinions, while telling the newest rendition of older practices and garbled experiences.
Even our wonderful Pagan myths have their own unwisdom. But, even unlike our academically bound Reconstructionalists, I do not hold that lore as sacred. To me, my personal STORY, my Personal Fayerie Tale is more important. My own experiences with the Spirits will always be triumphant. I will still seek wisdom from those who come before, but not from the sources of those who have proclaimed my path to be their enemy. And I am indeed one of their Adversaries.
Any religion that states that their way is the only REAL religion, and that all others are false, automatically become MY ENEMY. For I know many Spirits, and many practices, and many truths...and I would never ever seek to assert mine as anything other than my story. Not a universal story. A local story....folklore you might say, something I can share with others and they can have their own stories...
But in the end, all National Sagas, whether the Torah, Quran, the New Testament, the Upanishads, and more....they are a collection of STORIES, irrespective of what those stories and their followers expound as their source. They all have unwisdom as much as they claim to have wisdom.
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Myths and Scripture are Fayerie Tales
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