Theology and Skepticism
By The Methodist
WATCH the flight of a straw; theology leads in the list of books published in England last year. There were 945 of these theological volumes. Of course education came next; there were 680 educational volumes. And yet there are about 1,000 people in England (calling themselves Agnostics, Comptists, and Atheists), who make more noise than the 30,000,000 of people who read the old theology. And every now and then somebody on this side of the water rises to explain to people who recently bought 2,000,000 copies of the Revised New Testament that “nobody believes in that any more, you know!” The trouble with this little minority that imagines itself the whole world, is not so much skepticism as a disorder known in the rural districts as “the big head.”—The Methodist.