Shades of Dan Barker. Who, by the way, was actually told by members he preached to that the holy spirit flowed through him even though at that time he had already decided he was an atheist,
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell