(December 1, 2013 at 11:55 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Maybe it will help weed out all the fakers pretending to be clergy who are only in it for the money.
The ones doing it as a money-making scam would probably be hard-pressed to find a better gig even if they now had to pay taxes on the income. There are also the fringe benefits, such as the malicious thrill of condemning adultery from the pulpit when you're personally porking a half-dozen of your congregation's wives (or husbands...
).
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
