Sublime

half.

he recognises here that the religious temperament at its best is seeking not its own survival or glorification, but an answer to an intolerable problem – the unrequited suffering of good and innocent people.

Second,

a minister, though I’m past that now. . . .

In essence, it is the belief that the human world is profoundly damaged and can only be repaired by those who possess the secret which alone can heal it.

this troubled world can be achieved by acquiring and wielding a special kind of know-how, a knowledge that alone can save.3

It put the Church on an unnecessary collision course with science and suggested to people that to be a Christian they had to screw themselves up to believe things they knew were not true and deny things they knew were true.

myth of the white man’s burden from the days of the British Empire,

That is why it is no surprise that our imagination goes to work ‘forming ideas of those powers on which we have so entire a dependence’.10