Comment: The paganism of Narnia:
'When grave persons express their fear that England is relapsing into Paganism, I am tempted to reply, 'Would that she were.' For I do not think it at all likely that we shall ever see Parliament opened by the slaughtering of a garlanded white bull in the House of Lords or Cabinet Ministers leaving sandwiches in Hyde Park as an offering for the Dryads.
'If such a state of affairs came about, then the Christian apologist would have something to work on. For a Pagan, as history shows, is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. He is essentially the pre-Christian, or sub-Christian, religious man. The post-Christian man of our day differs from him as much as a divorcee differs from a virgin.'
Ha ha, I love the idea of Cabinet Ministers leaving sandwiches for the Dryads in Hyde Park! Though of course people do make offerings to their gods, these don't involve garlanded white bulls.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that contemporary Pagans are eminently convertible to Christianity at all. And I should know, since last year I tried Christianity again and found myself incapable of embracing it, for almost exactly the same reasons as I rejected it in the first place (except this time around I was better informed theologically).