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Thursday, July 24, 2003

Had Myth & Myth-making yesterday morning. I think it should be interesting - except that we're going to be using Jungian psychoanalysis once again. Anyway, by next Wednesday I have to have read Bacchae, and about halfway through the semester we're studying the Bible*.
We have to read Genesis 1-14 and one version of the Gospel.

After class, as I was walking to the Library to find Bacchae, Bonny asked me, 'You read the Bible a lot?' She was going to the Library too.
I said, 'Yeah**.'
'Could you give me, like, a summary of the bits we have to read?'
'Yeah, sure. I'll e-mail it to ya.'
I said I had a contemporary translation of the Bible (The Message) I could lend her if she wanted.
She said she's like that. And she asked me what I thought about studying the Bible as myth. I said that, sure, it you could study the Bible as just a myth. She said that she'd probably find it easiler to do that.
She asked where I go to church, and I told her. Then she asked if she could come to church. I completely wasn't expecting that. So I said we had church on that night if she wanted to come. She couldn't; she had to work. But she asked when the Sunday services were, and I gave her the details.

In the afternoon I had Mass Media, which looks like it'll be as good as Issues with in TV.

Scotty's given me this book he has called The Case for Christ. Since I'm not reading anything at the moment (except the Bible - haven't got Bacchae yet), I think I'll read it. According to Scotty, it's written by this skeptical journalist who went out to try and prove that the Gospels weren't true, and ended up becoming a Christian in the process.

*The Bible is myth. A myth is a story which is very significant to a group of people. Just because it is a myth doesn't make it fiction.
**Been reading it heaps lately.