Grayling on myth

...As soon as chapel was over I accosted the chaplain and said, 'This Christianity business; give me a reading list, I want to find out about it.' I was an earnest, studious and eager boy, then aged fourteen, and perhaps the chaplain thought he had found a soul to save among the mob of young heathens for whom rugby and cricket were far greater religions than his own. He duly gave me a list – it was in itself a rather inspired one; it included Bishop Robinson's Honest to God and Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground among other things...

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