There is a news story from Denmark about a Lutheran congregation that's seeking a new pastor. But the church has one non-negotiable but apparently controversial requirement: the prospective pastor must believe in God.

In parts of post-Christian Europe, pastors don't always have to believe in God to minister in a church. For instance, one pastor complained, "Personally, I prefer a good agnostic theologian rather than a fundamentalist who believes the Bible [can] fit all human aspects of life." A minister's council issued a protest against this congregation, saying "who can decide if a person has the correct beliefs?" The reporter comments, "In Denmark, what few churchgoing Lutheran Christians there are left are reduced to having to ask that the Church send them a pastor who actually believes in God—and this is controversial!"