Dear brothers,
Tonight I came across this article by the late, infamous Daniel Dennett: an academic profile of five Protestant ministers who secretly do not believe the doctrines they preach. I found it in turns revealing, repulsive, and rousing of the fear of God. Some here may perhaps likewise find it a worthwhile read.
https://typeset.io/pdf/preachers-who-are-not-believers-16liq2hlgv.pdf
“There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen”. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
There’s an excellent sketch in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ on modernists in the Church of England.
Forty years on and that sketch is still hilarious … scarily so. (Yes, Prime Minister was a TV comedy in the 1980s in Britain that was regarded at the time as an all-too-accurate assessment of how the British Civil Service worked … and still works).
(229) Sir Humphrey explains about The Church of England | Yes Prime Minister - YouTube