[hinckley buzzard]

Well put. The fact is that in recent decades the "clergy of all stripes" just hasn't attracted many really bright people. People with a lot of issues, not much critical judgment.

[ricmc2175]

I believe that this is the end result of allowing young men in the sixties and seventies who could not gain admittance to a technical graduate school flocking into seminaries to avoid the draft. People without a religious vocation other than devout cowardice graduating to a position as clergy.