Atheists. Would you consider a career as an atheist preacher in a protestant church?

Given the absolute * abandonment * of the majority of Christian tenets in Scandinavian countries, I actually agree with you for once.

In the cases of most of these churches, it's simply a feel-good social hour, containing very little solid doctrine. Given that, an atheist could easily perform the job of filling the reduced needs of those attending.

"If this provides employment opportunities then how many protestant churches in the US would consider employing atheist pastors?"

None - I would hope.

This is obtaining a job under false pretences and the person should lose the job, however, in the politically correct society in which many of us now live this sort of thing will probably increase.

We will soon be living in stupid situations where a boss will not be able to fire the new 'driver' he just hired when he finds out that the person cannot drive, or the 'typist' who cannot type etc.

The world has gone mad.

Unitarian Universalism has had openly atheistic preachers for years.

Atheists have no business preaching in the pulpits of Trinitarian Churches, even liberal Protestant ones that have been loosing their theological foundations for scores of years. for such would be opportunistic hypocrisy

Preachers should believe and practice what they preach

I wouldn't consider it, unless it were the only way for me to make a living. I'm the electrical engineer (Dilbert) type. But I have heard of quite a few atheist ministers and priests. They may not be nearly as unusual as you might think.

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John Popelish

Not such a crazy idea since most atheists would welcome christians rediscovering the idea of a loving god and acting like it!!

Who cares that there is no god just so long as we an get them to reject their current terrible human emotions of intolerance, hatred, bigotry and the love of prosecuting and start behaving more humanely?!!

I would love to have that job. All donations go to Building Buddhist Temples, spreading dharma and buying huge Buddha Statues.

I didn't know you can "preach" atheism. Isn't atheism a far too broad viewpoint to preach it? I mean, an atheist preacher would have to preach satanism, buddhism, (atheistic) humanism... pretty much every philosphical viewpoint that denies the existence of deities.

A lot of priest are Atheist that was forced by their parents to become Pastors/Priest. A lot of convicted Priest child molesters said they where actually Atheist.

True fact so go ahead and give the thumbs down

No, I have better things to do with my time then convince people God does not exist when I have no physical proof to confirm or deny it.

How does the saying go.

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

I sure wouldn't be able to be a preacher for any church, I'd crack up laughing too much. Besides, I actually want to HELP people, not just take their money.