Template:Clergy of the world
Clergy of the world
Who is the Clergy of the world?
If we use the term world that Jesus said his kingdom was not a part of and that his minsters could be in but not of then the world includes the constitutional orders of men and their governments. That would be the same world that James says spots religion so that it is no longer pure Religion.
If we use clergy as the ministers of what was called public religion then the clergy of the world would include the employees of governments that provide care for the need of society as well as those who collect the contributions of the people who are the resources of that public welfare system.
Are those who provide the services in modern government which was once the exclusive province of the Christian community in fact the "clergy of the State" providing the administration of welfare to the needy? That would be what is sometimes called "public religion" which is often doing what the early Church used to do. They are the administrators of your social welfare by the governments of the world.