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Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 26, 2009 at 3:01pm

i'm definitely going to read this. i've seen comments from Dan Barker and similar mentions from Professor Dawkins about clergy members emailing them and sending them letters expressing their doubts, agnosticism, and even atheism but feeling like, since it's all they've ever known and they have no other skills or training, that they can't leave their jobs as pastor.
pretty sad. very interesting.
thanks for posting this Johnny.

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Permalink Reply by Johnny on March 26, 2009 at 3:11pm

Dan Barker is actually one of the features in this article; and he comments on some of the correspondence he has had with doubting clergy.

And speaking of 'Dawkins' and 'no other skills'... A part in the article mentions that Dawkins "hopes one day to address it through 'clergyman-retraining scholarships,' set up through his charitable foundation, to "bridge the gap between living a lie and getting a new life.'"

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 26, 2009 at 3:13pm

psh, i guess that'll teach me to read the article before commenting. :)

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Permalink Reply by Johnny on March 26, 2009 at 3:17pm

Yea, it was like you're psychic... Wait! Is this gonna go back to that omnipresence thing? LOL!

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 26, 2009 at 3:22pm

~i knew you were gonna say that!~ LOL

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Permalink Reply by J. Cormier on March 26, 2009 at 7:22pm

Excellent read.

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