Misselbrook, Hick, and Consensus - Blake Bauserman

Concerning morality, David Misselbrook does not see the world as necessarily holding any objective reality. Rather the human experience offers a "marketplace of ideas" through which people may explore the more hidden aspects of reality, such as morality together. The theist and the atheist in his eyes have equal claims to dictate how they see the world, especially when lessons such as Jesus's golden rule appears across so many religions.

This is where I would like to bring the idea of consensus into play. We agreed earlier in the class that what flows from myth is reality and joins the two halves of the human experience. So what can be said then is that myth is a type of reality, no? With that and a world offering a variety of ideas all at once, I would like to propose then that myth derives itself from consensus.

Perhaps its power comes from a place of otherness, but it finds in origin in agreements among people. Mythic systems do come from collective beliefs of the figureheads, the specific details, and even the stories which constitute the entire mythos, for example, the books of the Bible. Now I will not make a claim per se whether myth is indeed an agreement between the divine and people or just people themselves. However, I do think it can be agreed upon, no pun intended, as to the source of myth.