Atheist pastor may keep state job in Denmark. (Around The World).A Danish pastor sparked an uproar recently when he announced that he does not believe in God, but he still may be able to keep his state-paid job. The Rev. Thorkild Grosboel, a Lutheran minister, reportedly said, "There is no heavenly heav·en·ly adj. 1. Sublime; delightful; enchanting. 2. Of or relating to the firmament; celestial: the sun, the moon, and other heavenly bodies. 3. God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection resurrection (rĕz'ərĕk`shən) [Lat.,=rising again], arising again from death to life. The emergence of Jesus from the tomb to live on earth again for 40 days as told in the Gospels has been from the beginning the central fact of ." Grosboel was suspended from his pastoral duties June 3 by the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Evangelical Lutheran Church can refer to many different Lutheran churches in the world. Among them are the following:
Some 85 percent of Danes belong to the state-supported Lutheran Church, but only 5 percent of the country's 5.3 million people attend services regularly. |
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