The Myth and the Logos.

It is so common that the intolerant rationalism , a big fan of the Logo, despises the Myth, as the religious fundamentalist blindness ignores or despises the reality of the tangible.

The mythical thought tends to ignore the evidences of the proven reality, opting to associate the facts with imaginary or intuited causes.
The logical thought on the other hand, tends to despise the naiveté of the religious thought, while ignoring it's emotional and ethical richness
Who tries to make peace with both sides runs the risk of being devoured by one of the opposite sides. Learning to sail in two waters is everything a challenge.
The observation of the world and history seems to show me that without myth there is no civilization, but without logic there is no progress. Apparently, the successful nations have been those that had known to maintain the balance between the faith and the logic, the science and the religion, the imagination and the reality.
Incredibly pragmatic achieving and peoples like the Romans or the Americans own their push and inspiration to quite absurd religious beliefs at the eyes of a logical point of view. Nevertheless, Democracy itself was the direct product of the Greek Polytheism.
On the other hand, logically right causes, like the Communism, failed because of lacking of a strong enough Myth .