I suppose one way to do it would be to enter the "profession" as an open skeptic, much like say Shelby Spong, and see it (openly) as a way to earn a living and to help people, even if it is only in assisting their delusion. That way there is no cognitive dissonance and you can hardly have any expectations of selling the truth.
The Evangelical Jew called Jesus felt called to become a preacher too. But, just like the facts prove, within a year (at most 3 years), Jesus’ supposedly message of love (mixed with hate), had turned his whole congregation of Jews, Samaritans, Romans, and Gentiles (all other nationalities) totally against him (funny how a message of only love can do this!).
In a land without separation of Religion and State, Jesus died as an agitator who predicted the end of the world, but instead only ended up with the end of his own world / life!
The reality of Rev. Jesus’ Gospel ministry caused what few followers he had left to jump ship and leave him when events took a nasty turn in Jerusalem. Most of these so-called Apostles never preached again.
Finally, it took forty plus years to assemble some type of controlled and reworked accounts which could paint Rev. Jew Jesus as a new man and gave him hope in a new Christian future.
Now, with a little help, Jesus failure and death has been re-invented as a Christianity’s hope and future!
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I could do it easily - I'm a trial lawyer. If the money is good I don't care who I work for.
Maybe a better approach would be for atheists and agnostics to get jobs as priests.
Then, we wouldn't have to sweat the small stuff like infidelity, dishonesty, etc, since we don't have morals
;o)
Don't encourage them to join a profession that creates so many child molesters!
I suppose one way to do it would be to enter the "profession" as an open skeptic, much like say Shelby Spong, and see it (openly) as a way to earn a living and to help people, even if it is only in assisting their delusion. That way there is no cognitive dissonance and you can hardly have any expectations of selling the truth.
The Evangelical Jew called Jesus felt called to become a preacher too. But, just like the facts prove, within a year (at most 3 years), Jesus’ supposedly message of love (mixed with hate), had turned his whole congregation of Jews, Samaritans, Romans, and Gentiles (all other nationalities) totally against him (funny how a message of only love can do this!).
In a land without separation of Religion and State, Jesus died as an agitator who predicted the end of the world, but instead only ended up with the end of his own world / life!
The reality of Rev. Jesus’ Gospel ministry caused what few followers he had left to jump ship and leave him when events took a nasty turn in Jerusalem. Most of these so-called Apostles never preached again.
Finally, it took forty plus years to assemble some type of controlled and reworked accounts which could paint Rev. Jew Jesus as a new man and gave him hope in a new Christian future.
Now, with a little help, Jesus failure and death has been re-invented as a Christianity’s hope and future!
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