From Preacher to Atheist - A Freedom from Religion Foundation Podcast
Jerry Dewitt was a pentecostal preacher for over 25 years before he realized that he was an atheist. He was the first clergyman to go through The Clergy Project. To him, the concept of hell (in any form) was hard to make sense of from his belief that God loved everybody. Over his career his theology had to keep changing in order to maintain the cognitive dissonance until it eventually dissolved. Here, in the style of a born preacher, he describes the 5 basic stages of his theology, how he lost his faith and how he’s using his old skill set to now spread the word of reason.
