As a Catholic, let me assure you that using a phrase like "truly oppressive popery" shows you do not yet understand the history or theology of that time period (it was neither "popery" or "oppressive," but was experienced by every people that converted as the pathway from oppression and hopelessness to freedom--the pathway that elevated women and children and the poor, led to the end of slavery, created the hospital and the university, and otherwise transformed pagan Europe). But as someone who trod this same path, let me assure you what I myself would have once scoffed at: If "the views of folks like jung and joseph campbell on these matters as expressions (or perhaps mirrors) of the human subconscious and the quest of the hero for even if they are not entirely true or provable, they possess an internal (and perhaps eternal) elegance" then you are stilll only seeing half the truth and you are stuck like poor Jordan Peterson -- deconctructing things into pieces small enough for you to appreciate but not have to actually pay attention to, but unable (yet) to put them back together. It's like taking an old watch apart and lovingly keeping the pieces in separate boxes. Sure, you can "appreciate" the elegance of gears and how the sweeping hands of the watch might "symbolize the passage of time" and "help mankind to grapple with the truth that his days are numbered and each passing hour leads to the inscrutable reality of death" etc. etc. but in reality you're just delaying dealing with the reality that that thing TELLS TIME ({"and that's damned important!" as he might say), and that you're not being aloof and dealing with timed death, and the watch separately, you're deliberately keeping the watch in parts so that you don't have to deal with time, the watch, death, and the watchmaker. And when you finally do, you're not LESS free, you're MORE free.