Valley of God

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12. You damn grumpy atheist! I'm tired of your negative waves!

Couldn't you see the sheer WONDERFULNESS of this article?

I sure did! All about hip, tech-savvy, and incredibly photogenic young religious believers. Not a single tongue-talking evangelical or creationist dumbass to harsh my mellow.

And dig that hip, young pastor!

The internet and social media present a conundrum for Chuck DeGroat, the pastor at City Church...DeGroat is a down-to-earth guy. He wears jeans when he preaches and sometimes swears in conversation.

Wears jeans! Swears! Just like another hip, young liberal Bay Area pastor in the 1970s. That one also wore aviator shades and ran an interesting Xian retreat in Guyana.

Instead he appeals to their intellect with solid reasoning. He wants to take sceptics seriously. “We don’t want to bullshit people because, particularly in San Francisco, there’s a big bullshit meter,” he says.

Uh...hate to point this out, Rev...no, actually I enjoy pointing it out - if you're selling people a story about talking snakes, virgin births, Zombie Messiahs and life after death...then by default you're bullshiting them.