RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 10:59 am by watchamadoodle.)
(February 21, 2015 at 5:57 am)Norman Humann Wrote: ...
The question that bugs me is, do all those priests, pastors and bishops really believe the bullshit they're preaching or did they just get a neat deal of deceiving the gullible and making money off of it?
I don't think anybody has discussed your last point, so I quoted it.
There is a book called "Caught in the Pulpit" about priests and pastors who no longer believe in Christianity but feel trapped in the clergy. That book claims that the education in seminaries often plants the seeds of doubt - just as Bart Ehrman lost faith after he studied Christianity in detail.
It's hard to know how many clergy are secretly atheists. I'm almost certain that my Orthodox priest was an atheist.
ALSO, it's interesting how many "false" gospels existed so early in history. These gospels were written by Christians. That suggests to me that many early Christians understood the gospels to be religious fiction conveying deeper truths.