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Richard Holloway

Born

in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom

November 26, 1933

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Gay & Lesbian, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric. He was the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 7,896 ratings · 1,076 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Little History of Religion 4.21 avg rating — 5,318 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt 4.12 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death 4.12 avg rating — 526 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe 3.86 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics 3.89 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? 3.84 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning 4.02 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between the Monster and the Saint 3.73 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity 3.96 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Read the Bible by Richard Holloway, Simon Critchley (Series Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.”
― Richard Holloway, On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?

tags: forgiveness, hurt, remembrance

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“Fundamentalists didn’t try to disprove science. They didn’t argue against it. They pronounced against it! It was the equivalent of a parent clinching an argument with a child by shouting: ‘because I say so’. That’s what fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority. Why is Darwin wrong? Because the Bible says so! But they did more than pontificate. They tried to ban science itself. That’s”
― Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion

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“But if we are all God’s children, why does God spend so much time in history ordering one branch of his universal family to wipe out another branch? Why did his love for his Jewish children have to be expressed by the extermination of his Palestinian children? Why did he later abandon his Jewish children in favour of his Christian children and encourage his new favourites to torment their older siblings? Why did he order his Muslim children who worship him as One to persecute his pagan children who worship him as Many? Why is there so much violence in religious history, all done by groups who claim God is on their side?
Unless you are prepared to believe that God actually plays favourites like some kind of demented tyrant, then there are only two ways out of this dilemma. The obvious one is to decide that there is no God. What is called God is a human invention used, among other things, to justify humankind’s love of violence and hatred of strangers. Getting rid of God won’t solve the problem of human violence but it will remove one of its pretexts.”
― Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion

tags: bible, god, history, religion, violence

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