Lutheran ministers are on the taxpayers' dole in Denmark. Eighty-five percent of Danes supposedly belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church, but only 5 percent attend church regularly.

"The Rev." Thorkild Grosboell was temporarily suspended after claiming in an interview last year that "there is no heavenly God; there is no eternal life; there is no resurrection."

Then, in a sermon May 16, he claimed 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."

Sounds as if he should be preaching at the U.N.

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