G. Vincent Runyon was an American Universalist, formally Methodist minister and author of the booklet, Why I Left the Ministry and Became an Atheist (San Diego, 1959).[1] He was from 1929 a Universalist Church minister at Binghamton, New York.[2] His booklet was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.[3]
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edit- ^ America's decline: the education of a conservative Revilo Pendleton Oliver - 1981 "... Mr. G. Vincent Runyon, in his well-known booklet, Why I Left the Ministry and Became an Atheist (San Diego, 1959), says that until he was thirty-seven "No man walked and talked with God more than I. God was my constant companion. ..."
- ^ The Universalist leader: Volume 32, Issue 15 1929 G. Vincent Runyon. Mr. and Mrs. Petty will live at 131 Front Street, Binghamton, NY Mrs. Petty Runyon is the daughter of the late Rev. J. H. Ballou. Kansas Hutchinson. — Rev. HC Ledyard,
- ^ The New York Times book review: Volume 71 1966 WHY I LEFT THI MINISTRY AND BECAME AN ATHEIST, by G. Vincent Runyon, Paper, 57 p., $1.00. This courageous preacher discovered that religion was not factual, and quit his high paid job rather than preach what he believed to be false. ..."