THEY are going to hell, and have been described as “Christian whores, atheists and worse”. What could be worse is hard to imagine, but such are the epithets being hurled by fundamentalist Christians at thousands of Christian clergy who have declared themselves comfortable with both religion and evolution.
More than 10,000 clergy have signed up to the “Clergy Letter Project”, launched in 2004 by Michael Zimmerman of the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh. “Evolution Sunday”, held in February to discuss the compatibility of science and religion, is planned to become a yearly event at churches across the US, Zimmerman says.…
