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This page is for discussion of [[w:folklore]], [[w:religion]], and [[w:mythology]].

=== Use of the words 'Myth', 'Mythology', etc. ===

(contracted; show full)or "mythologies."  Many people, though maybe not all (''i'd like to see examples of specific people who disagree with this claim, and why they do so''), think that from a religiously neutral point of view the stories of these extant religions are not a fundamentally different phenomenon from those stories that we do call myths.

Seven options have been proposed so far, by various people, for using the terms 'myth', 'mythology', etc., on Wikipedia:

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= Option 1 ===

Call the stories of the ancient polytheistic religions "myths" or "mythology"; do not use this term for the stories of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other extant religion of any significant size.  (So we might continue to call Greek and Roman stories "myths" even if a tiny minority of neopagans claims to believe the stories are true.)

PROS:
(contracted; show full):according to some
:hotly contested

[[Ed Poor]]
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I wouldn't characterize those as NPOV phrases, but as vaguely qualifying phrases.