15 Sleep Myths

"Everyone knows that sleep is pretty important, and most of us probably feel we don't get quite enough of the best quality sleep. That means we're likely missing out on some of these benefits, which are not only health related but cognitive as well. Is it possible that we're all sleeping so badly that it's made us too dumb to learn to sleep better? Well, we all certainly hope not. And in the interest of double checking our sleep knowledge, today we're going to examine 15 popular sleep myths. And hopefully we'll all be wrong about at least a few of them, because that means we have room for improvement.

"Some of these myths were verified by a 2019 paper by Robbins, et al. published in Sleep Health which compiled a whole bunch of claimed sleep myths from the popular media and had them all evaluated by ten experts in sleep medicine, each of whom had published at least 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and had them rate how true or false each myth was. So let's dive in and tackle the top 15 myths about sleeping."

Click on this link for the information:

Christianity Is Influenced By Many Myths

Click on the links below for an in-depth look at the history of Christianity and how its myth is not significantly unlike other myths:

https://www.collegesidekick.com/study-docs/2069056

https://religions.wiki/index.php/Christianity_originated_as_an_amalgamation_of_earlier_pagan_religions

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/influence-mystery-religions-christianity

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Mythic-Origins-of-Christianity-True-or-False

Conservatives And US Founding Myths

Conservatives in the USA have devolved into the promotion of lies and myths in general, and such includes the Founding of the USA. Click on the link below for an evidence-based expose of ten Founding myths that are primarily believed and promoted by conservatives:

10 American Founding Myths

Texas Myths: They Are More Than The Alamo

"What can the contested and often-mythological history of Texas show us about America today?

"Heather and Joanne use the current impeachment drama surrounding Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a window into the dramatic and ever-shifting legacies of the Alamo and the Texas oil boom."

Click on the link below for a podcast delving into the truth about Texas history:

Texas Tall-Tales, Ken Paxton. . . And Us

A Look At Mythology And Religion

"Myth: 'a collection of myths especially one belonging to a particular religion or cultural tradition' 'a book discussing Jewish and Christian mythology' 

"More colloquially, it's used to describe beliefs that we, generally, feel are antiquated, untrue, or shouldn't be believed. As Christians have the core of their identity tied to their religion, calling it a myth can be offensive."

Click on the link below for a video of Matt Dillahunty clarifying the relationship of religion to mythology:

Atheists Debates: Calling Christianity is offensive

Don't Strawman Mythicism

I am agnostic regarding the question of a historical Jesus. However, I lean toward accepting that there was no historical Jesus and I do accept that the stories about Jesus as found in the New Testament are probably myths.

That said, I find that Biblical scholars, whether Christian or atheist, who don't accept the claim that there probably was not a historical Jesus frequently use the Strawman Fallacy.  The following videos are excellent in clarifying the evidence behind the claim that Jesus was probably not a real person.

Mystery Faith (Part 1 of 2) - Richard Carrier

Mystery Faith (Part 2 of 2) - David Fitzgerald

Pondering Parallels and Mythicism - Robert M Price

Following are other links looking at this issue:

There are clearly good reasons to doubt Jesus’ historical existence

Christ Myth Theory

Did Jesus Exist?

Debunking the Historical Jesus

The Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About the History of Christianity

Religion: Superstition And Mythology

"Superstition, belief, half-belief, or practice for which there appears to be no rational substance. Those who use the term imply that they have certain knowledge or superior evidence for their own scientific, philosophical, or religious convictions. An ambiguous word, it probably cannot be used except subjectively. With this qualification in mind, superstitions may be classified roughly as religious, cultural, and personal.

"Every religious system tends to accumulate superstitions as peripheral beliefs—a Christian, for example, may believe that in time of trouble he will be guided by the Bible if he opens it at random and reads the text that first strikes his eye. Often one person’s religion is another one’s superstition: the Roman emperor Constantine referred to some non-Christian practices as superstition; the Roman historian Tacitus called Christianity a pernicious superstition; Roman Catholic veneration of relics, images, and the saints is dismissed as superstitious by many Protestants; Christians regard many Hindu practices as superstitious; and adherents of all “higher” religions may consider Australian Aboriginal peoples’ relation to their totem superstitious. Finally, all religious beliefs and practices may seem superstitious to the person without religion." (link)

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"Mythology is the main component of Religion."

"Initially, theology and mythology were synonymous."

"- - -  both primitive and modern theology is inescapably constrained by its mythical backbone. - - -"

"The classicist Robert Graves defines myths as 'whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.'"

"Folklorists define a myth as "a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form."

" Widespread similarities between religious mythologies include the following:

• an initial Paradise preceding ordinary historical time^[20]

• the story of a god who undergoes death and resurrection (life-death-rebirth deity).^[21][22]

• The mythical geography of many religions involves an axis mundi, or Cosmic Center.^[23]

• Creation myths

• Supreme deity

• Hero's journey"

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_mythology)
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How does one tell which religion is true, if any? What tool are you going to use when all of them believe on faith and not evidence?
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***If you disagree with this article, how do you justify or verify that your beliefs are true? What is your view regarding the value of evidence?***
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