For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't. Gene Roddenberry
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Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces , states that all myths are allegories for universal truths. This means that every story in the world has a lesson to teach us about life. This is why it is important to look at the meaning of things that are different from you. If you want to gain the greatest meaning out of anything, look at it through the eyes of someone who thinks differently than you do.

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