""Grief counselors" are the humanistic version of clergy. Can't pray or look to God for comfort in the schools so they had to come up with something else"
In any community, there are many people who do not attend any church, and have no pastor to counsel them in times of grief. There is nothing wrong with counselors being available to those people.
I have never been able to figure out why anyone would resent the presence of counselors in any such situation. Those who have pastors they can consult go to those pastors. Those who have no such thing now have someone to help them understand their grief and deal with it.
What would you have them do? Go without any help? They're not going to go to some strange church to get assistance.
Yes, counselors are being used these days in this type of situation. That's a good thing for those who benefit from them.