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6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization (Paperback, Print-On-Demand ed.)
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6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization (Paperback, Print-On-Demand ed.)
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When did you last encounter a myth? Maybe watching a movie, touring
a museum or browsing the sci-fi section of your local bookstore? To
contemporary men and women, myths seem mere relics of a premodern
era--legendary stories of capricious gods, heroic deeds and lost
cities. The physical and social anxieties that gave rise to myths
have been dealt with more productively in our century by science,
government and art. Right? "Not at all," says Philip Sampson. In 6
Modern Myths he shows that all societies, even sophisticated and
skeptical societies like ours, nurture myths that distort both
science and history to further cultural goals. Such myths are
important guides to a society's understanding of itself. How often
have you heard the story, for example, of plucky Galileo, armed
merely with a telescope and reason, doing battle with a
superstitious church only to be condemned as a heretic and harshly
imprisoned? Even though most of the "facts" commonly assumed to be
true about this story are just not so, the romanticized myth of
Galileo boldly marches forward. Sampson dispels this myth and five
others--that the rise of Christianity led to ecological crisis,
that missionaries have oppressed native peoples, that Darwin's
evolutionary ideas were embraced by scientists but vilified by
religious leaders, that the church was responsible for persecution
of witches, and that Christianity teaches the repression of bodily
pleasures--all woven nearly inextricably into the fabric of
Christianity and Western civilization. To tease apart historical
fact from cultural fiction Sampson tells different stories, rich in
historical detail, fascinating characters and surprising twists.6
Modern Myths offers you a historical tapestry that unsettles
conventional wisdom and provides an enlightening look at the
complexities of truth.
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