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Reasonable Doubts Podcast

rd86 The Man Who Didn't Sell His Soul on eBay

Reasonable Doubts Podcast

Jeremy

Science & Medicine, Agnosticism, Religion, Humanism, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Creationism, Skeptic, Criticism, Biblical, Intelligentdesign, Freethinker, Free, Doubt, Atheist, Funny, Apologist, Critical, Apologetics, Thinking, Agnostic, Atheism, Fundamentalism, Bible, Counterapologetics, Philosophy, Nontheism, Reason, Naturalism, Philosophical, Reasonabledoubts, Other, Social Sciences, Epistemology, Theism, Society & Culture, Ethics, Secular, State, Church, Evolution

4.8879 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2011

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

Hemant Mehta (author of the friendly atheist blog) was only looking to expand his horizons and raise a little money for a local freethinking student group when he came up with the idea that made him a media sensation. He started a page on eBay where he offered to attend the church of the highest bidder. Stories quickly spread in the media of an atheist "selling his soul" on ebay, which drove the bid higher and higher. Soon Mehta was traveling across the country visiting different churches to make good on his commitment. These church visits became the basis of his book "I Sold My Soul on eBay"--which gave Christians a chance to see church through the eyes of a friendly but critical atheist. For this episode Hemant joins us in the studio to talk about what he saw and how Christian readers reacted to his book.

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