What things? Well, things like that he doesn’t “believe in religion”, or in a personal God, that he treats Christian doctrine as “poetry and metaphor”, not fact, and that the Christian Church has made a serious mistake in denying and repressing human sexuality. The reason is that so many of the things Holloway has said and written makes him sound so much like an atheist that he feels the need to deny it. Why would someone who served as a priest for four decades and as Bishop of Edinburgh, the most senior post in the Scottish Episcopal Church, feel the need to say such a thing at all? One does not generally expect a bishop to be an atheist.įormer Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway “I am not an atheist.” Not a particularly surprising statement for an ordained minister to make, you might think.
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