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People seem to expect the impossible from their clerics.
They want them at once to be angelic and spiritual, but they also want them to be fully human. They have to have an understanding of human dilemmas so that they can offer advice. But they can never experience the same dilemmas. They have to be able to counsel people out of depression, but they are never allowed to be depressed themselves. Great guy, but his head's in the clouds.