Perhaps the real reason is that having a national story requires us to think about large issues of meaning, truth, ethics, and collective destiny, all uncomfortable ideas in our postmodern age. This is where religion can help. Not only do we need to understand religion to understand past events. Faith urges us to study them.
The Bible and the Koran, in particular, speak of God's action in history, and chart the lives of ancient prophets and patriarchs to confront us with timeless principles. History is filled with clues to the sacred. God is the creator of time, but is also active in time. By seeing meaning, good and evil, in the long human story, we find an indispensably richer meaning in ourselves.http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thought/documents/t20110119.shtml
Thanks Yusuf!
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