# Are there any religions that have no mythology attached?

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**Created:** [April 5, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-religions-that-have-no-mythology-attached/101998 "2002-04-05T14:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Stinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-religions-that-have-no-mythology-attached/101998/21 "2002-04-10T14:08:36Z")

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I am God.  
Thou art God.  
All are God.  
No myths nesisary.;j

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**Author:** ![Skippman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skippman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skippman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-religions-that-have-no-mythology-attached/101998/22 "2002-04-10T14:20:43Z")

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Back to the OP.

I believe Transendentalism is pretty much free of myths and gods. If you take it at it’s basest form (ingnoring the Overmind) then you have a almost druidic belief without the gods and rituals.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-religions-that-have-no-mythology-attached/101998/23 "2002-04-10T17:15:29Z")

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> I am God.  
> Thou art God.  
> All are God.

Stinky nails it in one.

[sub][sup]Somehow “The Gospel According to Stinky” doesn’t quite have the right ring to it, though… [/sup][/sub]

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-religions-that-have-no-mythology-attached/101998/24 "2002-04-10T17:39:42Z")

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Some branches of relkigions don’t have much of what you would call mythology associated with them. Chan/Zen Buddhism seems a pretty “pure” discipline, without the tales associated with most esoteric Buddhism. Some forms of Taoism seem very cerebral and ethereal, far removed from the “folk” Taoism with its “Immortals”. (Although I wouldn’t separate Taoism into two types – I’d be more inclined to make it a continuum.)

In either case, though, there’s some connection to its earrthly founder, Lao Tsu or Siddartha/Buddha, so it’s hard to avoid something that you can call “mythology” in any long-established faith.

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