Agnostic Bishop says let in the non-believers

[Atrax Robustus]

Richard Holloway says the worldwide Anglican Church has made room for "happy clapping" evangelicals, bells-and-smells Catholics, women priests and, in the United States, openly gay clergy and even practitioners of other faiths. So surely, he argues, it can find room for people like him - Christians who don't believe in God.


Richard Holloway is the retired Bishop of Edinburgh and has a strong opinion that non-believers should be members of the church . . . as long as they are christians.

Christians who don't believe in god? :confused:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/believe-it-or-not-the-bishops-an-agnostic/2009/05/19/1242498751437.html

[Atrax Robustus]

but . . . a christian that doesn't believe in god? :confused:

Father (nope - that's god), Son (OK - we'll call him JC), Holy Ghost (nope - that's god too) . . . does that mean that they are 33% believers?

[Atrax Robustus]

I would say there are quite a few who love the social aspects and theatre.

My partner was a "theatre fan" anglican for years, and didn't actually realise her lack of belief in a god qualified her to be atheist.

So he's not denying that the "theatre fans" (I'm going to use that in the future!) are already there, he wants to drum up attendances by attracting those who know that they're agnostics - as long as they describe themselves as "Christian Agnostic".

BTW - your partner would be excluded under this criteron . . . he doesn't want "Christian Atheists".;)

[youngmoigle]

Christians who don't believe in God...

Bears out a point I have made on other threads - Christians can interpret and reinterpret anything and everything until it eventually fits in with their world view.

[Self-deluding idiots]