THE Church of Scotland will hire mediators to handle mutinous parishioners clashing with ministers over the interpretation of Christian doctrine.
A third of the kirk's 1,200 congregations are in squabbles between church-goers and ministers, says a report calling for independent "peace-makers" to be used to quell disputes.
The infighting has been blamed on the growing influence of atheist writers such as Richard Dawkins, the evolutionist whose book The God Delusion challenges religious faith and the "irrational" belief in a supernatural creator.
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