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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.