She's not only an atheist minister in a Christian church:
"...According to the report, Vosper said in an interview that she stopped using the word “God” in her ministry because it was a barrier to participation in the church. Even if she were given incontrovertible proof that a god does exist, the disparity, tragedy, illness and anguish in the world would prevent her from worshipping it...." [emphasis added]
http://ift.tt/2d5WmU0
She may be a wonderful person with congregants who are happy to hear her weekly talks (not prayers) despite her refusing to mention God, perform church sacraments, etc. But ethically and morally, how can she reconcile continuing to be a UCC minister (United Church of Canada, a Christian church formed from amalgamation of various churches)? Shouldn't she leave and form her own humanitarian church or whatever? How can someone publicly and directly opposed to their organization's fundamental teachings possibly serve a leadership role as minister? Whether it be a religious group or LGBT group or political group or whatever, if you publicly oppose the core, central tenets of that organization, you should either leave, or expect to be fired.
I searched the board and only found one mention of her from 7 years ago, I thought I'd seen it discussed more recently but maybe it didn't mention her name.
"...According to the report, Vosper said in an interview that she stopped using the word “God” in her ministry because it was a barrier to participation in the church. Even if she were given incontrovertible proof that a god does exist, the disparity, tragedy, illness and anguish in the world would prevent her from worshipping it...." [emphasis added]
http://ift.tt/2d5WmU0
She may be a wonderful person with congregants who are happy to hear her weekly talks (not prayers) despite her refusing to mention God, perform church sacraments, etc. But ethically and morally, how can she reconcile continuing to be a UCC minister (United Church of Canada, a Christian church formed from amalgamation of various churches)? Shouldn't she leave and form her own humanitarian church or whatever? How can someone publicly and directly opposed to their organization's fundamental teachings possibly serve a leadership role as minister? Whether it be a religious group or LGBT group or political group or whatever, if you publicly oppose the core, central tenets of that organization, you should either leave, or expect to be fired.
I searched the board and only found one mention of her from 7 years ago, I thought I'd seen it discussed more recently but maybe it didn't mention her name.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2cIKy6G
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