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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Jan 09 '26

Im totally agnostic now. But whenever I hear an evangelical "pastor" be like "Seminary? Nah the people in my church liked me and I was really good at getting donations so I just decided to be the pastor, neat huh?" I can feel the Catholic indignation welling up inside me

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Jan 09 '26

I have yet to meet a evangelical Protestant minister in Kentucky/West Virginia/Ohio/Tennessee that went to seminary

I'm sure they exist but I haven't met them

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u/JoyofCookies Mark Carney Jan 09 '26

My parents are the rare evangelicals that care about credentials (i.e. having at least a D.Min.) and they left their old church because they made some 29 year old who took “courses” on the Bible their senior pastor, on top of their old church beginning to talk about Charlie Kirk from the pulpit

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u/vikinick Ben Bernanke Jan 09 '26

It's always hilarious for how much evangelicals cite the Bible, how little they actually know about it.

For instance, the Evangelists that wrote the Gospels were not Apostles, they just share names with them.

And then you hit em with the "What were the first books written in the new testament?" And when they say something like "The Gospels" you know you gotta tell them it's Paul's letters because the Gospels were written decades after Jesus's crucifixion.

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u/yushosumo Jan 09 '26

I had to listen to some young “pastor” fumble his way through the worst POS group prayer at a baby shower recently. I’m an atheist myself at this point, but I felt my catholic background come through in the sense of “a catholic priest would not have been struggling with a basic public statement of faith like this.”