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The parish priest told the class, with all the authority of a papal decree, that in the creation account in Genesis, including the first human couple, was a myth. It was enough to raise not a few eyebrows, mine and my wife's included.
As a murmur began to build among the stunned attendees, a passage from C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters came to mind- the one where the title demon writes glowingly of a pastor "who has been so long engaged in watering down the faith to make it easier for [a] supposedly incredulous and hard-headed congregation that it is now he who shocks his parishioners with his unbelief, not vice versa."
Continued below.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/adam-and-eve-are-myth-really
As a murmur began to build among the stunned attendees, a passage from C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters came to mind- the one where the title demon writes glowingly of a pastor "who has been so long engaged in watering down the faith to make it easier for [a] supposedly incredulous and hard-headed congregation that it is now he who shocks his parishioners with his unbelief, not vice versa."
Continued below.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/adam-and-eve-are-myth-really