Richard F. Holloway stopped believing in God in the mid \u201860s but this didn\u2019t prevent his becoming bishop of Edinburgh in 1986 or Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1992. Who knows, perhaps it was a requirement.<\/p>\n
He decided to become a \u201cfunny existentialist\u201d and behave as though God does exist. Evidently he didn’t try too<\/em> hard to pretend God exists, since\u00a0 he wrote a book called Godless Morality<\/em>, where he argued: \u201cIt is better to leave God out of the moral debate and find good human reasons for supporting the system or approach we advocate, without having recourse to divinely clinching arguments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He is patron of LGBT Youth Scotland and supports abortion and legalised euthanasia.<\/p>\n All in all, a pretty typical Anglican bishop.<\/p>\n From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n THE bishop who stopped believing in God, Richard Holloway doesn\u2019t pray any more but his moving memoir makes it clear that he\u2019s lost none of his faith in humanity<\/p>\n [\u2026.]<\/p>\n He lost his faith five years after he left Kelham. There had been struggles even when he was there \u2013 sexual urges didn\u2019t go away, and even though these were heterosexual, his first real crush was for a fellow novice. (Although that relationship remained entirely chaste, when the two men met up decades later and reminisced, his colleague admitted that they must have been in love).<\/p>\n None of those early struggles, though, had been about belief itself. Yet in the mid-Sixties, when he was working in a parish in the Gorbals, his faith in God ebbed away. \u201cI ended up with this funny existentialism \u2013 that there may be no God in the universe, but let\u2019s live as though there is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard F. Holloway stopped believing in God in the mid \u201860s but this didn\u2019t prevent his becoming bishop of Edinburgh in 1986 or Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1992. Who knows, perhaps it was a requirement. He decided … Continue reading