So theologians (fable tellers) are professionals, but nurses aren't?

[SamuelTheThird]

Nursing wasn’t the only casualty of Trump’s spending bill. Physician assistants, physical therapists, educators, social workers, audiologists, architects and accountants were also on the list of degrees that were not classed as “professional” by the Trump administration.

Programs deemed “professional” by the department were medicine, pharmacy, law, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, optometry, podiatry, chiropractic, veterinary medicine, theology, and clinical psychology.

“Can someone explain how a theologian is considered more “professional” than a nurse practitioner?” Amy McGrath, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, asked on X.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nursing-professional-degree-trump-bill-b2870045.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. A theologian is generally an academic. I'm not saying it's right, but it's not like being a pastor of some rando church.

A theologian is someone who studies beliefs. They're often professors.

[SamuelTheThird]

2. christ, who cares?

Giving a more sophisticated sheen to bullshit is still peddling bullshit. Vast majority of theologians are believers. They shouldn't be getting breaks that nurses don't get.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Studying why people believe these things is generally seen as a pretty useful pursuit, but okay.

[edhopper]

9. That is anthropology or sociology

Theology is usually about what religous doctrine means. And to often apologists.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. All of these disciplines overlap in various ways, for sure. A theologian is not usually teaching a congregation tho

[edhopper]

13. True

But seriously this is about who they are talking things from. Not who still gets them.

[Conjuay]

7. That's one opinion

[edhopper]

10. But are the more deserving

Than Nurses or Accountants?

[3catwoman3]

3. OK, fine. Let the hospital chaplains start your IV, change...

...your dressings, administer your meds, and help you to the bathroom at 3 AM

[SamKnause]

5. I am sure all the Christian Nationalists love it.

[mountain grammy]

14. I'm sure that's the point.

[3catwoman3]

8. This thread is supposed to have 7 replies, yet I see only #s 3 and 5.

What gives?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. you probably have people blocked lol

[Mossfern]

15. The rest

weren't professional.

[3catwoman3]

16. And why is yours #15, with no others showing up after mine which is number 8?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this on DU before.

[Celerity]

18. Check your blocked users list.

[Celerity]

17. Lololol