Sir,

In your notes to the Stonehenge book you say that 4000 years from now archaeologists might falsely conclude that Christianity worshipped a sun god because of the alignment of cathedrals. I’d like to respond that such archaeologists might well be right. I refer you to Mircea Eliade’s book ‘Patterns in Comparative Religion” which, ironically I think, carries the Pope’s imprimature. The argument is that religions evolved along with the Indo-European languages that expressed them. Religious ideas were carried from place to place where old ideas were changed to fit circumstances, just as Abraham brought tales if the Flood from Babylonia.

Best Wishes,

Robbie Collins