"Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs brought its first tranche of "over 1,000 pastors" to Jerusalem this week to train them to spread hasbara among their flocks. US Amb. Mike Huckabee praised the Israeli influence operation targeting Americans in an interview with CBN News shared Thursday.
"[It's] an extraordinary time for pastors to go to their pulpits and to speak with clarity and with boldness and to push back on the antisemitism, the bigotry that is being . . ."
This is one of the many reasons I decided to stop going to Churches after visiting many Churches and talking with many Pastors and Church goers
I may know more theology than the average pastor just by reading my Bible and reading arguments online over the years.
Unfortunately that "divinity degree" has a way of convincing a man he is superior to all while putting on a facade of humility.
I talked to a Pastor from a seminary that is highly respected by so called conservative christians and he told me a lot of classes are just reading Bible translations in English because they found most students have not read through the entire Bible even once even in a translation before enrolling in the seminary
Meanwhile I am considered less credible than a seminary graduate even though I read through the Bible multiple times without even enrolling
@vic @Bob_Smith
Also a large number of seminaries make people sign statements of faith that they agree with the seminaries position on muktiple listed religious claims before graduating and the seminary probably uses people who signed those statements that later proclaim that those statements are correct who have degrees from that seminary as evidence that the seminary is correct on that position