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Unified Theory Fiction & Non-Fiction

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Unified Theory of Fiction & Non-fiction. There is a crisis regarding religion believers and non-believers about not understanding metaphors. This often results in violence, hate, and even terrorism, crusades, and warfare between groups.

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“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Half plus Half = 100.0%, the entire world is incorrect

  1. Atheists are reactionary, all they care about is repulsing The Bible, Quran, Upanishads, Torah. That's like repulsing fiction Hamlet because it contains ghost characters, or repulsing Star Wars because it contains "the force" magic themes, or repulsing Lord of the Rings because there are "magic rings". Science Fiction stories like The Bible can be understood, don't be afraid of fiction.

  2. Believers confuse fiction with non-fiction. Bible verse "John 1;1" from 2,000 years ago spells out this problem along with Bible verse "1 John 4:20". You can not love God or love Jesus, because love of a fiction character or dead person you never met isn't really love. Again, Bible verse "1 John 4:20" spelled this human brain confusion / educational misunderstanding thousands of years ago.

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