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Podcast: Progressive Faith Sermons - Dr. Roger Ray
Episode: In Search of a Better American Myth
Description: A civilization's shared myths account for why things are the way they are. They can bolster loyalty to a religion or a nation, and they can excuse class and race privilege. Ancient Hebrew scriptures claim that God gave them a land where other nations were already living just as America's "manifest destiny" excused genocide and pathological land theft. But myth's don't have to be toxic, in fact, they could be quite useful in uniting a people around a common goal of actually becoming a great nation that, for example, eradicates poverty and racism, ends militarism and environmental exploitation. We...