I wonder how many theologians have been committed to something they believe to be a lie because they believe it to be a virtuous lie; one that paradoxically maintains the social order
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Schopenhauer says that religious truths only make sense when taken sensu allegorico, but in order for the moral message to do any good they must be taken sensu proprio, literally. The ideal religious structure might be an secretly atheistic priesthood and an ill-educated flock
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In a way the Church of England has been skilled in this cognitive dissonance; a simultanous belief and non-belief in the scripture which has created that "tinge of christian sentiment" which Orwell wrote about
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