A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia—-which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains at such gnats as the feeding of the multitudes—-if offered to the uneducated man can produce only one or other of two effects. It will make him a Roman Catholic or an atheist. What you offer him he will not recognize as Christianity. If he holds to what he calls Christianity he will leave a Church in which it is no longer taught and look for one where it is. If he agrees with your version he will no longer call himself a Christian and no longer come to church.
Watering faith down
Jared Gould reports a bit of a bump in Catholic recruitment, but notes that the Christians voting with their feet are not coming so much from the liturgical wings of the Protestant churches as from the rock-band mega-churches that are more social clubs than religious organizations. The young people crossing over to Catholicism put me in mind of a warning from C.S. Lewis in "Christian Reflections" (quoted at p. 171 in this review):
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Well, don't feel too bad; the Pope is doing his best to meet you Protestants halfway. The new Converts are going to want the Latin Rite, I imagine, but the Catholic Church continues to try to suppress it while preaching Bernie Sanders liberalism.
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