Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Religion
Related: About this forumFeelings of Guilt among Non-believing Clergy Part One
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rationaldoubt/2017/05/feelings-guilt-among-non-believing-clergy-part-one/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=nonreligiousEditors Note: This is the first in a series on non-believing clergy guilt, inspired by a question put to blog contributor Bruce Gerenscer who had listed the many Christian organizations he had formed during his years as a fundamentalist minister.
Feelings of Guilt among Non-believing Clergy Part One
May 29, 2017 by Linda LaScola
Todays blogger, Clergy Project Board Member Mason Lane, worked with me to put a list of questions together and then graciously answered the ones that applied to his experience!
By Mason Lane
What are some of the things you regret, if any, about staying a member of the clergy after you no longer believed?
N/A Id left the city where I preached and moved to Phoenix where I had my freethought epiphany, so I never had the experience of trying to preach while not being a believer, which Im sure I never could have done. If I was a liberal I could have tolerated it for a short while, but not as a fundie Evangelical Pentecostal.
What are some of the things you learned once you left the clergy?
How it felt to be on the outside of the cult/community (very good!) and how all the things Id been taught, and taught to others about atheist, were absurd propaganda. How silly, childish, and creepy believers are when they talk about their irrational beliefs.
What advantages to yourself or to society do you see in staying in (or getting out of) the clergy?
Having a real life to think for myself, explore, learn, live and have Sundays, Wednesday, special revival times etc. etc. free.
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
6 replies, 4506 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (2)
ReplyReply to this post
6 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Feelings of Guilt among Non-believing Clergy Part One (Original Post)
NeoGreen
May 2017
OP
gtar100
(4,192 posts)1. What was that crack about liberals? Was that a joke?
If not, he doesn't know shit about the meaning of liberal, which is typical of one with a conservative, fundamentalist upbringing.
Mariana
(14,849 posts)4. Looking at the context, I'm pretty sure he meant to say
something like "if I was in a more liberal church, I could have tolerated it for a short while, but not as a fundie Evangelical Pentecostal.".
Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)2. That stuck out for me too
Guess he's still a conservative asshole.
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)6. no I think it is pretty clear he was referring to liberal christian churches while he was a preacher
in a fundamentalist church, not to his political beliefs.
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)3. He could have said....
That liberal Christians are more accepting of atheists?
But he also wanted to suggest that even liberal Christians are still partly Christian. And therefore flawed. Possibly he hints, hypocritical?
So he rejects both conservative but also liberal ... Christianity?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. "Tis a gift to be simple,
but not always.