Not directly relevant to your post but I thought I’d put that Richard Holloway quote that you asked for here so your readers can see it too. It’s from the book *Between the Monster and the Saint*:

“We have lost the feeling for myth, the dark poetry of our unremembered past, and replaced it with the fraudulant veracity of religious claims ‘to historical reality’. This accounts for the peculiar ugliness of both religious and anti-religious protagonists today, neither of whom has any feel for the creative power of metaphor. By literalising it, either in the name of the dogmatic orthodoxies of religion or the dismissive orthodoxies of science, we have cut ourselves off from the ability of myth to hold a mirror in front of ourselves.”