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A couple of the people involved with The Clergy Project's founding, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola, published a book called Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind (revised/expanded edition 2015), which might be helpful. It's a synthesis and qualitative analysis of more than 30 current and former pastors (including some seminary students/professors) on their life, struggles and nonbelief. Might be an encouraging read as well.
To my knowledge, http://clergyproject.org is not associated with Richard Dawkins. It's history mainly involves Daniel C. Dennett and Dan Barker. Not only is it anonymous, but to join the community, you must directly contact the people who run it. They confidentially work with the applicant to prove they are indeed a member of clergy to prevent infiltrators who would join just to seek the identities of those involved.
EDIT: I also highly recommend Caught in the Pulpit. This is a book produced by Daniel C Dennett and Linda LaScola. They took the stories of pastors who are stuck just like your pastor friend. If nothing else he will find himself in the pages of that book and realize he isn't alone.
This book would seem to match your interests...
https://www.amazon.com/Caught-Pulpit-Leaving-Belief-Behind/dp/1634310209
> Or perhaps the atheist isn't probing to the bottom of the glass.
So you think members of the royal academy do not probe science to the bottom of the glass? Numbers for America were very similar to this recent British study
> Or perhaps their pride moves them away from God.
That is not impossible but unrelated to the claim.
The claim was very simple in that it says:
It didn't address any reasons for this supposed outcome. This claim is easily verifiable by just measuring the religiosity of people (self declared label plus concrete practice) and looking if it goes up when the science background is stronger (professors compared to students, quality of the publishing within the professoral group etc.)
> make science their god
If you define god as "that which occupies the most important place in our live", then you could say such things. Otherwise this sentence just doesn't make sense, does it?
That's one more example of strategic ambiguity typical of theologians and priests who do not actually believe but have to maintain a Christian image outwardly. Almost all the atheist preachers interviewed for this book use that tactic.
This seems like the perfect time to promote this great book i just finished reading:
Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634310209/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_OFZpDbR7MY9GG
Great book and I’m sure anyone in this sub would enjoy it