I noticed most ancient people’s religion get called mythologies, does that have something to do with it?
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We don’t have a clear agreed upon definition for religion. If you want to start a hot debate, find two religion or philosophy graduates and ask them to define “religion”, then take a step back take out snacks from your pocket and enjoy the show.
However mythology is just a collection of myths, epics, or other narratives that explain the origin of “the world”. There are many mythologies, basically one for every culture. They explain everything from the world, to the origin of the people, explain the gods and their orgin.
Christianity does have a mythology, it is just tangential myths and narratives that expand the culture around the religion. It is important to understand that Christianity, for example, does not share unified mythology. There are culture specific mythologies, like Saint George killing the Dragon, or Saint Patrick driving away the snakes. So on and so forth.
However there is a western christian bias on the use of terms here. West/Christianity consider(ed) it’s culture and religion to be more “real” and “truthful”, when compared to different faiths and cultures. Basically extension of imperialism and colonialism.
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