"Good feelings" about mythology do not an effective and compassionate civilization make. Clear, self-powered thinking and self-reliance produce the strength from which people can afford to be open and compasdsionate with each other.

I have a vivid memory of a film showing a young boy, blonde haired and earnest, wearing a uniform shirt and neckerchief and lederhosen, singing "The Future Belongs To Me" at the top of his lungs with rest of his jungbunde, and the joy the boys took is singing together was wholesome and charming. Whoesome and charming until you added a more experienced perspective and realized what the said jungbunde was.

I am not drawing a parallel between religous training and the Youth Corps; but I am saying that the fact that they may enjoy the experience is not a metric of much value.

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