Doubting Danish Priest Suspended

Can a man who doesn't believe in God serve as a Lutheran priest? Not in Denmark, at any rate - Thorkild Grosboel, pastor of Taarbaek, a town close to Copenhagen, has been suspended by bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel because he stated in a recent radio interview that "there is no heavenly God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection."

Rebel said that the comments "created confusion and uncertainty about what the Church stands for," but Mogens Lindhardt, leader of Denmark's Theological College of Education, has been quoted by the BBC as stating that the claims were "refreshing."

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