Rev Richard Coles: How I went from atheist popstar to Christian priest
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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Illusionist and mentalist Derren Brown and broadcaster and priest Rev Richard Coles discussed The Search for Happiness in the 3rd episode of The Big Conversation.
In this excerpt Richard Coles describes how, after a hedonistic pop career in the 1980s with The Communards, he was converted to Christianity and a subsequent vocation to the priesthood.
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I think he’s just a lovely fascinating interesting man, his priest partner just died at 42, so sad. I’m not religious at all, but I really like to listening him.
I completely agree My thoughts precisely
So it just felt good, truth had nothing to do with it, got it.
Is that what you take from this video? How old are you?
My sister was in pain, so I put my hand on her and said "all pain go in Jesus's name", it went away instantly. We couldn't believe. My Buddhist and a hindu friend both had an OBE and saw Jesus, and became Christian. Another friend had NDE and met Jesus. I was a hardcore atheist, anti God. But after doing numerous supernatural miracles, I can't deny, and am now a Christian. One God, One Way, its Jesus only. Follow him and repent to do supernatural miracles and enter heaven. He died for you. God bless you
@@chiragrulze Bloody hell, didn't take much convincing for you to drink the kool-aid, did it?
@@PaulCarr1
“It felt good”
“Truth had nothing to do with it”
Look up straw man argument and (Genetic Fallacy). The fact is that it does not logically follow that just because some aspects of reality feel good that this means they are false this is the genetic fallacy!!
Doing science feels good. Using logic, that is using analytical philosophy feels good but it does not logically follow that the belief in science, logic/analytical philosophy is false just because it feels good!!
Furthermore, according to the literary genius GK Chesterton…
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
Equally, it does not feel good being crucified and most of the early apostles died brutally for the Truth of Christs presence after witnessing him brutality murdered.
“I am still searching for truth”
(Buddha)
“What is truth” (Pontius Pilate).
“I am the truth” (Jesus).
“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is, as a matter of course, an infinite marvel.” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letter to niece Sofia Alexandrovna)
This was interesting. I sympathise with him in that he works in the media, which is an extremely hostile environment for Christians, and where confessing believers are ridiculed at best. Perhaps this is why he's so vague about his conversion... "my circuits were firing", "something changed"... he can't bring himself to actually mention the substance of Christian belief, which is king Jesus, His atoning death for our rebellion against God, and an eternal future in God's kingdom. Even on a Christian programme he is unable to candidly articulate the gospel in which he (presumably, as a priest) believes. :(
It takes all kinds, as my granny used to say.
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How have I never heard of this series before now??!
He played an amazing clarinet on Bronski Beat it ain’t necessarily so
My sister was in pain, so I put my hand on her and said "all pain go in Jesus's name", it went away instantly. We couldn't believe. My Buddhist and a hindu friend both had an OBE and saw Jesus, and became Christian. Another friend had NDE and met Jesus. I was a hardcore atheist, anti God. But after doing numerous supernatural miracles, I can't deny, and am now a Christian. One God, One Way, its Jesus only. Follow him and repent to do supernatural miracles and enter heaven. He died for you. God bless you
Wow ,not many priests can say I was also in a hugely successful and brilliant pop group
Christ is the only way
You wonder what he thinks about Jesus and the need to deal with sin. Certainly if you are serious about your faith he is probably the last person in ministry you would listen to for wisdom.
…why would he be the last?
@@katrose5179 Because he appears to have either none or very little spiritual wisdom. I have never heard him publicly explain the gospel and why we all need Jesus.
Has this guy even read the Bible?
Atheist popstar? Come again?
Cory Markum Had the same thought
Richard was half of the 1980s pop duo The Communards (they had the biggest UK hit of 1986 with Don’t Leave Me This Way) though admittedly his pop career isn’t mentioned on this clip.
Unbelievable? Actually kind of makes things worse. Because it makes a title pure clickbait. Because he was a popstar, which was never mentioned. And his Fame had nothing to do with his atheism.
Username actually the pop star thing is clearly mentioned halfway through, as his atheism
Unbelievable? So your knowledge is pop career is not mentioned in the video now you're saying is popped where is mentioned in the video. Which is it?
This man isn't leading anyone to heaven but to hell by saying being a homosexual man is ok with God. It's not! Repentance and turning from sin is what God requires.
That’s brilliant, but God doesn’t exist. Don’t conflate biology and fiction.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say being gay is a sin.
Who are you to pass judgement when you follow a homophobic religion that freely allows any hetero couple to get unlimited marriages as long as they come forth as a man and a woman, regardless of how many divorces, sexual immoralities and other sins they continue to commit ?!! Your God is nothing like Christ, the God who has never ever condemned homosexuality nor same sex marriage. Good luck.
Hebrew Israelite is the truth