The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don't know any.
If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.
Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
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