As his wife slept, he fumbled through the darkness for his laptop. After a few quick searches with the terms "pastor" and "atheist," he discovered that a cottage industry of atheist outreach groups had grown up in the past few years. Within days, he joined an online network called the Clergy Project, created for clerics who no longer believe in God and want to communicate anonymously through a secure Web site.
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