I Sold My Soul on eBay
Yesterday I began reading Hemant Mehta’s book I Sold My Soul on eBay. Mehta is a young atheist who, wanting to study religion up close, offered his time for sale on eBay. The winning bidder would get to choose which worship services Mehta would attend. If you think it crass that someone would actually offer up his soul for auction, so does Mehta, and he never did that. The soul-selling angle was added to this story by the press as news of the auction spread.
Several things make this book interesting. First, I Sold My Soul is published by a Christian publisher* and has a forward by Rob Bell. That’s because Mehta’s assignment, as determined by auction-winner Jim Henderson, was to visit churches and report on faith as seen through an atheist’s eyes. This is incredibly valuable market research for churches.
The second thing that makes this book so interesting is Mehta’s account in the first five chapters of how he moved from the faith of his youth (Jainism) to atheism, and his description of atheism and atheists. Any Christian who is seeking a reasonable faith will find a lot in common with Mehta and other atheists. As Rob Bell says in the introduction, “…the god they rejected is a god I’ve rejected”.
Anyway, I’m just getting into the chapters that describe his church visits, so, more later…
*Waterbrook Press is a Christian publishing division of Random House
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