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In telling of these American places, Lukas had to challenge some powerful reassuring myths about our past.
One of those myths is championed by Fredrik Logevall in Choosing War . That's the idea of "missed opportunities" for a peace settlement before the American buildup in 1965.
"Birn's and Finkelstein's essays constitute a sharp rebuttal provoked by the public's and the press's love affair with a book that casually dismisses excellent work done by others; that contains many contradictions; and that upholds dangerous myths regarding the existence of 'national characteristics.
A piece argues that black Americans espouse paranoid myths (that the CIA sells crack in the inner cities, for example) because it's easier for them to believe that white America is trying to destroy them than to believe that white America doesn't care about them.
If the Bible and Koran are simply books of myths with morals, then they are no different from any other moral literature--they are stripped of their sacred significance.