An ordained minister with the United
Church of Canada is resisting efforts to oust her from the pulpit
because she is an atheist.“I don’t believe in … the god called God,” Gretta Vosper told the Globe and Mail. “Using the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.”
She said that she believes the Bible is “mythology,” and denies that Jesus is the Son of God.
“We build a faith tradition upon it which shifted to find belief more important than how we lived,” Vosper said.
Vosper, 57, and who was ordained in 1993, first came out as an atheist in 2001.
However, her congregation still supported her until
2008 when she sought to do away with the use of the Lord’s Prayer and
lost approximately 100 members of her 150-member congregation.
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