For Evangelical Pastor, A Road From Belief To Atheism

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For Evangelical Pastor, A Road From Belief To Atheism

吉彩网网站 | By Dick Gordon

Published July 23, 2013 at 12:12 PM EDT

Jerry DeWitt spent most of his life working as an evangelical preacher in Louisiana. Then, two years ago, something happened.

He got a phone call from one of his parishioners asking him to pray for her seriously injured brother. DeWitt realized that he had no proof that praying was going to do anything to save this man and it was unfair to get the sister鈥檚 hopes up. He couldn鈥檛 do it.

DeWitt left the church and is now an atheist. The transition has not been easy. He has been ostracized from his community and his family, but says that he could no longer spend his life doubting the very existence of something that he was leading others to believe.

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Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.

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