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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InzeladunMaster" data-source="post: 2645546" data-attributes="member: 9774">I think that is because they have not been taught to do so, not because they cannot do so.Catholics used to have the Bible on the banned books list.  When that did not work, they wrote it in an elitist, dead language (Latin).  They did these things because they felt the masses would not understand and would misinterpret scriptures.  Luther disagreed and once the Bible was translated into common German, the Christian world blew apart into different sects... maybe the early Catholics were right.  Even today, with common-tongue services and so on, the Catholic religion is still the most symbol-laden Christian religion there is.  Those who started the Christian off-shoots probably did not understand the symbolism  and so the symbols are gone from many fundementalist faiths.If religion began teaching the symbolism (which at this point may be impossible due to lost knowledge), we would have a vastly different world - and one less devoted to literal interpretations.  Of course, we would have a less controlled population as well.I am just saying that the elite were taught a different religion than the masses in the ancient times, and that the myths carried the keys to that different religion.  Of course they believed - but it was different than it is today.</blockquote>