"The church is a museum, and museums are not in the business of pioneering. Thus any attempt to reconnect Christianity with the leading edge of spiritual development must appear naïve, incongruous and ridiculous. It is likely to be mocked inside the church as outside it, for the faithful love the museum and most theologians love being scholarly museum curators. There are only a few dissidents."
"The
dissidents or heretics are people who, in spite of all that has happened, still
hope it is possible to reconnect religion with modernity."
Don Cupitt, “Taking
Leave of God”, Crossroads, 1980, page 155.
