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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Line to Be Drawn Between Myth and Religion?

Myths aren't stories about things that happened in the deep past that are largely irrelevant. They need to be brought into an awareness not just or primarily at the propositional level, but at those non-propositional levels. I prefer to use the Greek word because we've now turned the English word into a synonym for a widely believed falsehood. And I don't think, again, if you go back even to the church fathers, I'm not a Christian. Neither am I here to attack it."

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