#jerry dewitt

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"My profession of atheism still doesn't make the phrase 'lost my faith' any easier to say. It sounds so negative. It sounds as if something that you value is no longer in your possession... I don't feel as if I have lost anything; instead it's just the opposite. I feel as if I have found something very valuabl, indeed. I have found myself." -- Jerry DeWitt

[atheostic]

[M]y profession of atheism still doesn't make the phrase "lost my faith" any easier to say. It sounds so negative. It sounds as if something that you value is no longer in your possession. I don't feel as if I have lost anything; instead, it's just the opposite. I feel as if I have found something very valuable, indeed. I have found myself.

Jerry DeWitt

[cure-your-delusions]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“If your religion gets offended and kills because of jokes... then your religion is a joke.”

-- Jerry DeWitt

You may remember Jerry DeWitt as the face of the Clergy Project.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader

The new heroes within the secular movement are coming from unlikely places — like the pulpit.

Within days, he joined an online network called the Clergy Project, created for clerics who no longer believe in God and want to communicate anonymously through a secure Web site.

DeWitt began e-mailing with dozens of fellow apostates every day and eventually joined another new network called Recovering From Religion, intended to help people extricate themselves from evangelical Christianity.

(From 2012)

[atheistcartoons]

For some, it is difficult to give up religion even though they understand it’s not real. It is especially difficult for ministers and pastors who not only define their social networks by their (now non-existent) religious beliefs, but are expected by those communities to lead them in those (now non-existent) religious beliefs.

In 2011, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dakwins helped set up The Clergy Project, a community specifically aimed at religious leaders who had become deeply closeted atheists. 

The first member of the Clergy Project community to out himself was Jerry DeWitt, who went on to establish Recovering From Religion, designed to help regular people deal with the “sheer terror” referred to above. 

Atheists do not naturally form communities. They have literally nothing in common except a lack of belief in gods. However, these organisations (among others) mean that no one has to feel alone. 

[dogmadebate-official-blog]

Live from Logicon at the University of Arkansas! David Smalley is joined by JT Eberhard, Dan Barker, Jerry DeWitt and Phil Ferguson.

[teenwolfpacks]

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.

Jerry DeWitt