Today's active mythologies are woven through the heartfelt beliefs, personal values and dreams of the individual. The belief system that employs faith in intuited truth is mythic. Contemporary myths would include art, science, religion, consumerism, history, and the myths of objectivity and progress. These are not isolated myths but the motifs of a seething modern mythology that provides various contexts for mediating experience. Mythology is supported by faith.
Faith implies trust and intuited knowledge.
Religious faith is trust in the religious experience as the way to know God beyond logic. When we think of faith we think of religion, but faith includes more. We have faith in our convictions and ideals. To have faith the participant must either be unaware of the paradox or not accept it. The search for truth always negates the belief systems of existing mythologies by exposing their contradictions and destroying their coherence.