sfgate;" The Danish government upheld the clerical suspension of a Lutheran minister who proclaimed last year that there was no God or afterlife, and he now could be fired or fined for declaring his beliefs in the pulpit. The government suspended the Rev. Thorkild Grosboell, pastor his unconventional beliefs at his church. Grosboell "had damaged the state (Evangelical Lutheran) Church ... And had not shown loyalty to the state Church." Grosboell has been under strict supervision since he first was suspended after a interview in which he said "there is no heavenly God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection." But in a sermon, Grosboell said that "God had abdicated in favor of his son, hence in our favor. Therefore there is no longer a heavenly guarantee or an interfering might, there is only the godly kingdom (on earth) that is achieved by us and between us. So if it fails, there is nothing...I don't know about others but when you have a man of the cloth who don't believe in what he teaches then, it really makes you wonder what's true and what's not?"
Sunday, June 25, 2006
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