How come I didn't read pic related in primary school?

How come I didn't read pic related in primary school?

You went to public school

your parents didn't love you

You're an Amerilard

>primary school
>American

You shouldn't be here?

You are blind.

You read Bulfinch instead.

It was written by a woman

I read the Percy Jackson series instead.

Burger here, I did read it in a history course in high school. Not sure what OP did wrong.

I too am a Burger and read it in High School.

Compulsory schooling and universal literacy memes Tbh
>implying our schools are any better

Because once you learn the Greek gods were made up and why they were made up, you start wondering if your god was made up. At least that's what happened to me.

oh yeah that's the reason, they're trying hard to fight atheism, you're the underdong that's it.

It's trash.

t. PhD in Classics.

>the Greek gods were made up

>the Greek gods were made up
But they kinda exist in a Jungian sense - many people see the riddle in the beginning of the Theogony as a hint in this direction.
>We spek tru 'n' fals yz, we ar ze muses

Is it better than any other book on the topic?

My 2nd grade teacher actually did read it to us during the greek part of the curriculum

No no no, they were very, very real.

>stories are real because they illustrate behavior patterns

You are an idiot.

>stories are real because they illustrate behavior patterns

I'm not saying real in a material sense or that there is an Olympus somewhere where this happened - if you think i said that then you are building a good ol' strawman.

Because there isn't a standardized test about mythology. That's all that matters is that kids can pass standardized tests so that the west still seems competitive with Asia after all. Learning isn't important.

No they actually exist in a real sense you fucking pseud

>implying that middle America isn't run by Evangelical Christians who run school based on their pick-and-choose style beliefs.

I don't believe they exist, but I believe they existed.