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Deriving moral stricture thru a cosmological myth. When the myth is a illustration of human interaction (such as the Golden Rule), it serves as a conduit for teaching. But to take that cosmology and craft miscellaneous strictures around it, to give them authority (like Prosperity Gospel), is metastasizing a power structure for one's own ends...not illustrative of humanism. In any event, 'belief' in a myth is fraught, if one is not simultaneously acknowledging that myth is an analogy, at best, and sometimes is nothing more than a cute story.

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