Did I hear you say that the clergy are well educated and therefore not in the same category with the fortune tellers and other quacks who claim to do business with the supernatural powers? Ah yes there is the rub. Your pastor has been to school true, but he has never been taught to think. He is a parrot. Forgive him. He can’t think for himself. His thinking has been warped because he has been indoctrinated with religious superstition. His education has been slanted. He has been told what to believe. It ha s been poured into him through a funnel. When he is graduated he is a beautiful bird who wears a colorful robe on Sundays and repeats the same lingo week after week. A moron could do just as well.
Is your pastor well educated
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I think Mr Runyon might be on to something here. 🙂
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Me too
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It’s the same for “christian counselors” who have not one iota of real psychiatric training. These people should be banned from saying they have any REAL credentials. 🙂
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Interesting you say that because this is a scam that’s nearly as old as Christianity itself. Religionist “scholars” called themselves doctors precisely to create the illusion that their delusions had value.
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Church doctors, they called themselves. The monkish class were the ones, in medieval Europe, treating people in most places.
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Not true. According to online etymology dictionary (and other sources) the word “doctor” is derived from the Latin word for “teacher” and its first usage to describe a medical professional occurred during the late 14th century.
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Thanks so much! LOL. You didn’t quite understand what I said, did you? Let me try again in more simple terms: From its inception the church and the clergy used terminology to make it seem like their mythology had a basis in facts/science/study. This involved creating a school of thought that was entirely divorced from Aristotelian logic and titles that gave the impression of authority- even if the only authority was in superstition.
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You’re right. I misunderstood what you meant. My apologies for the error.
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It’s always helpful if we don’t consider any debate a matter of belonging to a team or having loyalty to any one individual. Let each idea go forward or fall on its own merits, not based on *who* proposed them.
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We are in agreement
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I am not so sure. The “science” of psychiatry, while better than religion, is pretty sketchy to me. An empathic preacher who has made a career out of listening to people and trying to provide kindly advice might be better than a lot of “doctors”
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It’s true that psychiatry started out not grounded in hard evidence, but much of it now is quite solid. We have all sorts of reliable studies done on diseases, medicines, and treatments. Practices evolve as we learn more and more.
If pastors just stayed silent and listened I’d have no problem with them. But they give shit advice. Like a child or adult being messed with by demons, how people’s problems are caused by sin…there is even a big rise of exorcisms going on in the modern day. That shit is DAMAGING. Priests and pastors have zero proper training yet they parade around like they do, and that is unacceptable.
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Could not agree more with that.
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I think it is on point
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A very simple yet straightforward post, my Kenyan brother! And so very true. Most of the clergy of any faith are educated NOT to think for themselves but to merely “parrot” the teachings of their particular belief system. If they were taught to think, where would their followers be led? Naked hugs, O Sanctified One! 🙂
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If pastors could think for themselves, there could be fewer of them
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Absolutely! And the world would be a much better place! Naked hugs, my brother!
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There’s little wonder Christians believe what they do. It’s been repeated and repeated and repeated (ad nauseum) for thousands of years to each succeeding minister of the gospel and then passed on to the gullible sitting in the pews. How can it possibly be otherwise?
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If you ask the christians, they believe, on the contrary, that their pastors know what they are talking about
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Pastor???? I don’t have one of those…….
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I do. It’s where I take my cattle to graze.
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I’m a city gal, & I have my herd of invisible pink unicorns here, but nobody sees them eating.
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Hahaha
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You should get one, my friend.
He/ she will teach you about talking asses and pregnant virgins
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IF a pastor is a parrot he is indeed not educated. Any reasonable education at a higher learning school (University/College) should push the boundaries of the mind and teach above all else critical thinking.
Now, if you go to a catechismal school…then yes, you are learning to parrot the doctrine of a particular denomination.
Get your facts straight before disparaging remarks about an entire people group.
Whether you believe or not is entirely your choice…but I assure you that one point in your life you have contemplated God, and made a choice to believe or not.
Taste, and see that the Lord is good…
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The “Lord” is VERY f**kin’ tasty! I should know because as an atheist cannibal, I’ve eaten MANY a christian. Yum, friggin’ yum, but do the faithful taste great! $Amen$
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Very tasty, that I can confirm
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Steve, sorry but you seem unable to understand simple sentences.
Tell me in which school one should go to be told what god is and its nature. While at it, you should tell me why this information hasn’t been shared with the rest of the world.
Or are you saying god is a matter of taste?
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In the place where I live, I know a case where an acquaintance wanted to study to be a priest just because “the money are there”.
Just yesterday there was a priest in my house (guest) and judging by my religious knowledge, he acted profanely, even seem to suggest support of a husband to cheat on his wife.
I’m so glad I moved on.
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Well, I think most of them, priests, are in it for the money
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