C. S. Lewis

I had to reacquaint myself with The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe . Well, I had no idea! Truly, I was shocked. I was shocked because all the years of things said about C.S. Lewis, never once did anyone come even close to what was going on; even Lewis himself dared not face what he was doing.
Yet, how do we go from the Resurrection myth of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe of our childhood, and end up in adolescence and adulthood with Diseased Resurrection myths of vampires, werewolves and zombies ? Or our myths about politics, our social lives, and economics - like the "invisible hand" that rules capitalist markets ? (a bit of benign idolatry of our ancestors) The progress of our experience from the Myths of Childhood to the Diseased Myths of Adulthood in this culture shocks me.

We reject the innocence of doves when we thrust children into the adult World of Wolves we have created for them.  It is child abuse of the most disgusting sort, being done merely to preserve our illusion of Eternal Degradation; eternal so that we cannot find blame in ourselves for our dismal state.

The world is built by codes and languages of conscious & observant beings. Even before birth, human beings sense and process information from their surroundings and themselves. To process information requires some sort of set of rules: a code. In the case of new-borns, it is built in. From this arises are the other codes necessary to process information during the life span of an individual, up to and including Language and Mathematics and Music and all the rest.
Life is a Story: information and codes to process information. Being made in the image of God indicates not that we resemble God physically, for then we would be idolaters - no, it means that Moral Inspiration is built into us. All things created experience suffering and evil; We alone are built with the ability to create the Story of the Good. (See the NY Times Magazine for May 9 2010 on The Morality of Babies.)
Joseph Campbell once said our age lacks Myths, and it needed some. I say that our age has too many Diseased Myths  (the notion of "vampire" extends even to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of markets, in my opinion. This invisible hand has always for me been the image of the hand of Nosferatu.) and has a scarcity of Good Stories sufficiently complex to engage intelligent minds. (We do have quite a few "numbskull" stories about how good we all are and how good things in general are.)

A problem exists in the fact that Language and Mathematics are at the apex of our "coding" ability. What is the nature of the Meta-Language whereby we are able to see the World beyond the picture we have created with Language? There are no easy answers for this, since everything in our world - even Religion - has been built by us (no matter who created it... I don't see "build" and "create" as being the same.)
Here's where Paradox takes over, and we go where the religious geniuses (not "religious leaders") have indicated: to exist where meaning is so basic, it no longer can be defined.

The Good Story once every seven days is not enough. The Good Story is not the story of the religion we grew up with; for Christians, the Good Story is not the story of Jesus repeated over and over one day out of seven. The Good Story is what we create with our lives, the full history from birth to beyond. Everything else is but a sideshow.