RE: Problems with atheism
August 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That last bit is stretching it. A priest may perform the function of mental health counselor, but there are often better qualified people for this (though more and more often priests are given training and certification in some area of mental health). An untrained priest has no validity, academically and clinically speaking, over a PHD in any relevant field. That some priests give excellent advice is unsurprising. Some people give excellent advice, priests are people. There is no weakness in discarding relics with regalia.
A great many internal conflicts are caused by the actions and words of those very same priests, a cynic would accuse them of drumming up business for themselves.
There's nothing implicit within atheism that addresses priests roles separate from messengers of god in the first place.
A great many internal conflicts are caused by the actions and words of those very same priests, a cynic would accuse them of drumming up business for themselves.
There's nothing implicit within atheism that addresses priests roles separate from messengers of god in the first place.
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