Re: holy smoke

Sean Draine (seandr@microsoft.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:34:14 -0700

If you want embarassing, try the middle ages. Now those bastards had
religion.

>   There's a moment in the Joseph Campbell power of Myth video series where
> Moyers asks Campbell what he thinks will become of the world if a new
> mythology (religion) doesn't take hold in the modern world.  Campbell
> responds, " Why just look at the New York Times on any given day. There's
> your result of a lack of an overiding mythology" 
>
>
>    embarrasssingly old hat?  Hmmmm.... More embarrsssing than the state of
> modern humanity?