Mythos or Logos

“As I have said, the author of the Fourth gospel speaks of the source of human evil and delusion as the ‘father of lies’ and the ‘murderer from the beginning.’ If this ‘father’ is a father from the beginning, and if what he fathers is lies, then the first lie must also have taken place at the beginning. If he is a murderer from the beginning, then the beginning must have been a murder. The first lie took place at the site of the first event. The event was a collective murder; the lie was that it was not a murder but an act of religious devotion and zeal. The lie was the myth” (Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled, p. 228).