There are atheistic clergies. That may sound like an oxymoron. But that's true. One of the recent projects of Daniel Dennett, an academic philosopher / cognitive scientist, seems to verify that [see http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP08122150.pdf ]. They currently serve as ministers in churches, but they just don't believe what they used or are supposed to believe anymore. Unsurprisingly, as far as I know, many of them are mainline Protestant ministers. I'm pretty sure that there are some from other branches of Christianity (including Catholic priests and evangelical ministers). Mainline Protestant churches, at least in the U.S., are heavily shaped by theological liberalism. When I occasionally visit mainline Protestant churches in the U.S., I can still sense the vestiges of Adolf von Harnack and Walter Rauschenbusch. The belief that God is still moving in our midst in a supernatural way is somehow frowned upon, as if it's the thing of the past. Christianit
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