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By not belonging to a press-cutting agency I miss most of the bouquets and brickbats which are aimed at me. So I never saw the article you write about. But I have seen others of that kind, and they’ll break no bones of mine. Don’t, however, misjudge these ‘liberal Christians’. They genuinely believe that writers of my sort are doing a great deal of harm. They themselves find it impossible to accept most of the articles of the ‘faith once given to the saints’. They are nevertheless extremely anxious that some vestigial religion which they (not we) can describe as ‘Christianity’ should continue to exist and make numerous converts. They think these converts will come in only if this religion is sufficiently ‘de-mythologised’. The ship must be lightened if she is to keep afloat.
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C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect... (The C. S. Lewis Collection: Signature Classics and Other Major Works))