The Historian and the Husband

 Earl has a post up about changes in science versus changes in religion The Historian and the Husband. 

It seems like something in Chesterton and Lewis, but I think that was more about belief in a woman's faithfulness. This has a humorous example instead. Humorous unless you are the husband, that is.

I would add that new discoveries in science are usual, while most questions in a religion have been asked by someone and answered to general satisfaction, often many times before. We don't go back to Aristotle and Plato in philosophy because we like them, but because we think they asked the right questions. A lot of people have gone over their territory. So also Augustine, Aquinas and others with more disagreement around them, such as Luther, Calvin, or Joseph Smith.  Sometimes new archaeological or historical information comes in, or general belief changes around something like evolution, setting off new(ish) questions, but those happen less often.