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?