First Sermon  "I don't believe, and neither should you!" |
Posted on 08/16/2022 6:39:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rise of the Godless chaplains: Nearly a third of prisoners have no religious faith. Now a non-believer has been appointed as a head chaplain for the first time – and the Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network hopes more prisons will add the faithless to chaplaincy teams. Ben Leapman investigates
For the first time a person with no religious faith has been appointed as the head chaplain of an English prison. The woman, 50, who describes herself as a Humanist, leads a team of 20 chaplains including Christian, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu faith leaders. In her first interview, she told Inside Time: “I don’t believe in God … If I go out to see somebody and they want to pray, I’ll be honest and say – I won’t pray with you, but I can come with you and you can pray in the chapel, or I can arrange for a religious chaplain to come with you instead.”
Around 500 chaplains are employed in English and Welsh prisons. Normally the jobs are advertised for candidates of a particular faith, so non-believers cannot apply – but each prison also has a Managing Chaplain, who can be of any faith or none. The woman, a former prison teacher, took up her Managing Chaplain post this year, after the previous post-holder went on sick leave. Inside Time has been asked not to name the woman or the prison.
Once a week, 73 year-old Jim Coakes gets on his electric bicycle and whizzes down to his local prison, Wormwood Scrubs, to put in a shift as a volunteer chaplain. He tours the wings, talking to the men in each cell – about religion, family problems or whatever else is on their mind. Sometimes he is tasked with checking up on the men on suicide watch. Hundreds of men.......
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“For the first time a person with no religious faith has been appointed as the head chaplain of an English prison”
Then what’s the point?
I suspect that the majority of those that do worship the prophet.
There are no atheists in foxholes!
Whoops. Prison, not the Military.
Wasn’t this a Yes Prime Minister episode?
“Inside Time has been asked not to name the woman or the prison.”
Because......?
First Sermon "I don't believe, and neither should you!" |
Boy will she get a surprise when she finds out God doesn’t believe in her, either.
By attaining the position of chaplain, this atheist has confirmed that he is indeed deep into his atheistic religion.
There is an atheist who has been running the Vatican for almost a decade ..
She DOES have a religious faith: Humanism.
The sooner that is legally recognized, along with militant atheism, the sooner we can eliminate a lot of crap lawsuits.
You mean the child-raping, mass-murdering prophet? Thought so!
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