A man who claims to be a Presbyterian minister but denies God exists…and still heads a “church” in Oregon…claims he’s very insulted when people tell him that he’s not a Christian.

“The concept of ‘God’ is a product of myth-making and ‘God’ is no longer credible as a personal, supernatural being,” John Shuck wrote in a blog post on his site “Shuck and Jive.” “Jesus may have been historical, but most of the stories about Him in the Bible and elsewhere are legends.”

Shuck rejects the Bible as literal and denies the existence of Heaven and Hell as well as God.

“Even though I hold those beliefs, I am still a proud minister. But I don’t appreciate being told that I’m not truly a Christian,” he stated. “Many liberal or progressive Christians have already let go or de-emphasized belief in Heaven, that the Bible is literally true, that Jesus is supernatural, and that Christianity is the only way. Yet they still practice what they call Christianity.”

Many observers of Shuck say that he is just openly doing what many others who have similar beliefs are trying to do:  tear down the church from the inside.

“What you see here is nothing more than someone who wants to infiltrate the Church in an attempt to destroy it,” Andrew Rappaport of Striving for Eternity Ministries in Jackson, N.J. told Christian News Network. “The two things that he does not understand is, first, the Church will not be destroyed, and second, his whole argument that God does not exist is based on intelligence, logic, ability to reason and morality—all of which require the God that he denies, because immaterial things are not the product of chemical reactions; they require God.”