“The inconceivable system of education at school allows the following absurdity: at 10:00 schoolchildren go to a catechism lesson, in which the Creation of the world is explained to them in accordance with the teachings of the Bible;
at 11:00 they are in science class, where they are introduced to the theory of evolution. And this despite the fact that the two doctrines are in complete contradiction with each other.
/.../ The Christian religion is trying to get out of this impasse, explaining that the pictures of the Holy Scriptures must be given symbolic meaning.
Anyone who would have tried to say such a thing four hundred years ago would have ended his career by being burned at the stake to the accompaniment of hosannas."