"I had always said that when I could see the holes in the hands and feet of Jesus myself then I would consider believing. It was very much a standard line – I wouldn't take anything on belief, I wanted to see the evidence. On that hillside I looked up at the crucifix and Our Lord was there with the holes in his hands and his feet and in that instant – I wouldn’t say I believed, I wouldn’t say I decided to start believing – in that instant, I knew. I knew that I had been looking all these years without seeing Christ crucified. There he was in front of me and I then knew that God and Jesus Christ were true. My life has been upside down ever since. All my original views were turned upside down. It has cost me quite a few friendships and has probably cost me a political career but I cannot un-know what I now know."
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"The day my atheist convictions were shattered", Catholic Herald (16 October 2020)
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Rob Flello
Robert Charles Douglas Flello (born 14 January 1966) is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent South from 2005 to 2017. In 2019, he changed his party allegiance to the Liberal Democrats.
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