Hemant Mehta Speaks About His "Soul-selling" eBay Auction

On December 12, 2007, atheist Hemant Mehta spoke about his infamous eBay auction to the Humanists of West Suburban Chicagoland, a Membership Chapter of the American Humanist Association. The event took place at the DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church in Naperville, IL.

In the video, he refers to the moment he decided to auction his church-going time on eBay and the initial media reaction to it.

The auction eventually ended at a staggering $504. A month after appearing on Kirk Cameron's radio show, Hemant's story appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and eventually led to the writing of his book "I Sold My Soul on eBay."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400073472/wwwfriendlyat-20

Hemant blogs at http://www.friendlyatheist.com

Thanks to Joanne Reid for producing the video and Jack Sechrest for putting the event together.

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[michelleagbo]

wheres the next part???:(

[Mpromptu]

There's no next part right now... but maybe soon!

[DaneWilson98]

hes my math teacher

[ltjayson]

This is awesome! I love what you did! People think atheists are animals...so this showed that we are real people!

[FewScrewsLoose99]

masonic bastad

[Treadsoftly14]

hemant is a pretty good writer and i enjoyed his ebay book.

you guys have a smart teacher

[Arjquad3]

Ha he is my math teacher

[viktorkhryapa]

this guy teaches math at my school

[pianodon]

Doing this would be a good way to get a free lunch. Church folks are always willing to take you to lunch!

[someletters0]

and where are you going?

[isagrimeyting]

i am gona laugh so hard if thers a hell and he goes there wonder who would b laughin thn you cock :D