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RockRaven

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3. I disagree. It seems to me that an atheist would make a better chaplain than someone who

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Aug 28, 2021, 12:18 AM

Aug 2021

subscribes to a particular doctrine. They can get out of their own way and help the person with what the person needs which is specific to them without any particular baggage on the chaplain's side.

Besides, while it is certainly not true for ALL atheists, often atheists have studied more different religions than believers, who often have focused their studies on their own religion (or subvariations therein) while being rather ignorant of others.

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