The Role of Myth in Religion

In the Greco-Christian standpoint that develops in the West, what really is going on is the claim that truth is sovereign. When you jettison that principle, all you're left with in the end is power and the coursions that power can wreak in the world. I think it's important to take these questions of religion outside of the context of the religions that are currently still practiced,. like Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.