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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1504582" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>That may well be true but even fictional characters in myth can offer a teaching moment.  I'm not so much interested in throwing out the baby with the bathwater as much as just throwing out literalism.  Odysseus journey was myth but it didn't lack for life lessons either.  Fact is I find the similarities of Odysseus to the Jesus in Mark's gospel rather compelling.  Might suggest the same stories told over and over again just through different characters and cultural lenses.  Now that fascinates me.</p></blockquote><p></p>