What you say is true for competent pastors. I’ve probably been exposed to more than my fair share of the incompetent ones.
...I noticed a long time before I deconverted that when pastors said something about a subject I knew something about, they were totally wrong some ridiculously high percentage of the time. Should have tipped me off.
What you say is true for competent pastors. I’ve probably been exposed to more than my fair share of the incompetent ones.
I’ve been fortunate in as much as several of my pastors and most of my lay preachers had science degrees. Mind you I suspect I’ve selected out most of the bad ones since I do recall I used to spend time with my family absolutely bagging the crap out of those preachers who said silly things.
What you say is true for competent pastors. I’ve probably been exposed to more than my fair share of the incompetent ones.
...I noticed a long time before I deconverted that when pastors said something about a subject I knew something about, they were totally wrong some ridiculously high percentage of the time. Should have tipped me off.
I’ve been fortunate in as much as several of my pastors and most of my lay preachers had science degrees. Mind you I suspect I’ve selected out most of the bad ones since I do recall I used to spend time with my family absolutely bagging the crap out of those preachers who said silly things.