RE: A Methodist in Your Midst
March 24, 2012 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2012 at 10:20 pm by Cyberman.)
(March 24, 2012 at 9:10 pm)Phil Wrote:(March 24, 2012 at 9:05 pm)Insanity x Wrote: Alarm bells should ring when the pastor wants to avoid questions.
In my experience it isn't so much that the pastor wants to avoid questions since as Bart Ehrman pointed out most pastors have been exposed to the questions in seminary and already have very shaky to nonexistent faith. It is just that they will loose their livelihood if they admit their troubles so they prefer to live a lie. They just don't want to have their bread and butter exposed to the same questions thereby losing their meal ticket.
Sort of along the lines of $cientologists being banned from using the internet, or at most being granted strictly limited and supervised access. Can't have the faithful finding out there is no spoon!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
