Why religion is appealing (Introduction)
A completely different take-http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=37&blogid=21-> After my son died, I had no one to go with Hi David - my deepest sympathies-I found this closing remark of Joseph Campbell (In A Hero with a Thousand Faces) strangely comforting, a little while after my son died. > It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal - carries the cross of the redeemer - not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.