If Theology is Poetry, it is not very good poetry.
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C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 118.

It must also be remembered that only a minority of the religions of the world have a theology. There was no systematic series of statements which the Greeks agree in believing about Zeus.
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C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 116-17.

The truth is that the resemblances [between pagan myths and Christianity] tell nothing either for or against the truth of Christian Theology. If you start from the assumption that the Theology is false, the resemblances are quite consistent with that assumption. One would expect creatures of the same sort, faced with the same universe, to [...]