Richard F. Holloway stopped believing in God in the mid ‘60s but this didn’t 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 to become a “funny existentialist” and behave as though God does exist. Evidently he didn’t try too hard to pretend God exists, since  he wrote a book called Godless Morality, where he argued: “It 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.”

He is patron of LGBT Youth Scotland and supports abortion and legalised euthanasia.

All in all, a pretty typical Anglican bishop.

From here:

THE bishop who stopped believing in God, Richard Holloway doesn’t pray any more but his moving memoir makes it clear that he’s lost none of his faith in humanity

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He lost his faith five years after he left Kelham. There had been struggles even when he was there – sexual urges didn’t 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).

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. “I ended up with this funny existentialism – that there may be no God in the universe, but let’s live as though there is