Michael Knowles: “Atheist chaplains, in a way, have already existed for a long time and we just call them psychiatrists”
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From the November 20, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): The reason I like this story is not that I think this is good for people. It's not that I think the atheist chaplain is even a coherent category of of occupation. It's that it's a reminder that you can't stamp out religion. You can't do it. Atheist chaplains, in a way, have already existed for a long time and we just call them psychiatrists. It's just people who have often, sometimes, purely psychiatric problems. Usually, though, it's deeper spiritual problems. And they go and they want to — what they really want is to go confess their sins to a priest, but they can't bring themselves to believe that or think that that would be a worthwhile endeavor. So instead, they go and confess their sins to a psychiatrist. And the psychiatrist, unlike the priest who can give you the absolution of God, the psychiatrist just gives you drugs to numb the pain and and, blur up your head a little bit. But they do that. People need to go talk about their problems. People still have the eternal questions on their mind. What am I? What am I here for? Am I here for anything at all? What happens after I die?