Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A nationally prominent first-amendment advocate and authority on the religious right tells of his break with fundamentalism and the growth of intellectual and moral freedom.Skipp Porteous was "saved" at the age of eleven by people who thought they were doing him - and God - a favor. Their actions sent him on a long, arduous inner journey. Porteous embraced fundamentalism because it provides simplistic solutions - the Bible purportedly contains answers for everything - and, like millions of others, he needed to believe that he had found the one true religion.A leave of absence became his first step in walking away. Removed from the extreme fundamentalist viewpoint, with its narrow world view, his mind cleared. Reason and logic emerged, and for the first time in his life he was free and happy.In Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Porteous explains how he was deceived into becoming a born-again Christian; what he endured for so many years; how he got out; and finally, why he fights so hard against the movement today. Using the knowledge he has obtained in monitoring the religious right, he also outlines in detail what we can expect from the movement in the next decade.

Skipp Porteous was formerly a fundamentalist minister, and then the founder of the Institute of First Amendment Rights, publisher of Freedom Writer magazine, and the author of five books. He was credited by the FBI as solving the only hijacking in US history to go without arrest by confirming the identity of D.B Cooper in his book Into the Blast. He was also the founder of Private Investigations in New York City, where he worked with high profile clients and multiple government agencies.