After reading all above, i am convinced that the three of us are saying the same. The only difference is our definition of 'narrative', a term pksitioned somewhere on the long gray area between religion and a suggestion.
ones personal suggestion could be someone else's religious mandate. that's part of the thing with stories. everyone is free to take them as serious as they like. for good and for bad. we all know the cases where someone takes a particular story to serious and goes overboard trying to live by it.
