FTWT: "Freedom From Myth, Metaphysical Language and Esotericism" Continued

We don't have tohave a revolution like they had in Russia—the Bolshevik Revolution—or the revolutionled by Mao Tse-tung or by Castro to put lifeback on this planet for Americans in a strongform.

All we need to do is recognize that we'vebeen given a picture of the world that comes from the language of mythology and not fromthe language of truth. That's all we have todo.

This mythological presentation of reality hasformed more fantasy and fiction in the thinking — our thinking, that is — than any civilized learned society should tolerate. Should grown men and women go on seeing the world in the language of the kindergarten class or in the language of the Sunday School text? It is a shame that we are still held down by such fantasies, fiction, and poetic pictures, out of a confused or a baffling mythology.

Imam Warith Deen Muhammad's publication, "As The Light Shineth From The East.”