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The lunatic who scams with pseudoscience is leaving? Fine, but I feel sorry for her future victims.
A couple of links for context: 1, 2
WTF does someone's spiritual beliefs and practices have to do with how well they are able to run an organisation? That's an ad hominem argument. My country has a Christian prime minister at the moment but oh noes, I'm a non-religious hippy 'witch' so I guess our prime minister should step down because he believes in a pseudoscientific giant bearded man that lives in the sky and goes to an expensive building every week to speak magic words in unison with other cult members to call a special spirit to bless everyone that believe the exact same doctrines....
You should not accuse me of fallacies when I have not even argued that... My contempt is due to her actions. Using your example, if I have a problem that requires a healthcare professional, I don't think your prime minister would try to sell me things that have been proven useless but pretending otherwise, such as energy healing or homeopathy. Far from just beliefs, there is a big difference when one is actively harming others, especially for profit and there is information available about it.
Believing in things that don't exist sounds tied pretty closely with being a terrible businessman.
And yes, religious leaders should not be leaders IMO.