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Article: Stop religion getting in the way of morality
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 8, 1999
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Godless Moralityby Richard Holloway (Canongate, #9.99) Ancient
Wisdom, Modern World by Dalai Lama and Alexander Norman (Little,
Brown, #14.99 ) In Godless Morality, Richard Holloway has given us
the most startling book by a bishop for several decades. Ordinarily,
we no longer expect bishops to have anything interesting to say about
questions of religion or morality.
In the Roman Catholic church, the Bishop of Rome in effect treats
the whole church as his own diocese and allows other bishops no role
except to echo and enforce the Roman line. In England, Church of
England bishops are effectively silenced by nervousness, both about
the Evangelicals and about the precariousness of their own ...