\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. Because it doesn't ring true to human experience, which is deep and multifaceted. My dad and I did a podcast recently about what to do when youve been hurt by the church (or a pastor or leader). This image is not<\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. Thankfully, bad pastors make up only a small minority of the pastoral population. He is the founder of the Unification Church, which has become worldwide since its origin in 1954. When pastors get on this high wire they know that there's a high risk of failure. This list looks at 10 of the worst. And so they are always full of bluster and bravado, making grand claims about how swimmingly things are going. Additionally, bad pastors are often manipulators, able to explain away every action, no matter how egregious. 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