After 25 years of preaching about God, hell and salvation, Jerry DeWitt just couldn’t take it anymore. For too long, he said, he’d been preaching messages he didn’t believe. He was torn by the feeling that he was living a lie.
BETHESDA, MD — As coming out parties go, this was a big one. As the American Atheists convention here wound down in March, a woman with short dark hair and a dark suit took the stage.