“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.”
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 10
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