I joined the Unitarian Universalist Church and allied myself with its toughest doubters. At the newspaper, when I was taken off the religion beat and reassigned to corruption investigating, I was relieved. I had felt dishonest reporting stuff I deemed a fantasy. Eventually, I won 15 national prizes as investigator, and became the paper's editor. But my disdain for supernaturalism didn't fade.
Invisible spirits are imaginary, as far as an honest observer can tell.
They're a universal delusion. So I wrote five books and dozens of magazine pieces pushing this message. As you may guess, it's a bit precarious for a crusading agnostic to run a newspaper in the heart of the Bible Belt. So far, there has been no fundamentalist outcry. But I try not to flaunt my skepticism before churchgoing readers.