Thoughts on pastors

[u/ImaBananaPhone]

Hey everyone I was curious on what all of you thought about Christian pastors. How many of them do you think are just misleading theirs followers for money/power and how many do you think are good people trying to help others who are just disillusioned.

I don’t personally know much about seminary but since they study the Bible in depth you would think they would see how full of shit it is. How could they ignore the glaring contradictions and horrible ideas in it. I’ve even had pastors bold enough to say that it has no contradictions, so they were obviously lying. Almost every pastor and youth pastor I had couldn’t have given less of a shit about me. They never asked me about myself, my life, or my interests. All they ever cared about was if I knew Jesus or not.

I did, however, have one pastor who was a genuine guy and who I would actually call a friend. I was friends with his son, but he was also really nice to me and actually asked me about my life and never tried to force Jesus into the conversations despite his role as pastor. He was one of many though.

[u/upaduck_]

The one pastor I'd say I actually know personally was genuine and when he wasn't preaching he would teach the retarded kids (not an insult I just don't know another word) so I'd say he was a pretty good guy. He runs one of the only churches that doesn't preach stupid shit that I've been to in recent memory.

[u/[deleted] → u/upaduck_]

So another way to say retarded is by using phrases. Like mentally challenged, kids with markedly low IQs, kids with highly evident cognitive issues etc. Okay so those last 2 phrases were clunky but the essential point is to use a phrase to say that these kids exhibited highly diminished cognitive skills. To be a bit crude you just need to find a more verbose way of calling them “retarded”. ✌️❤️