Danish priest who proclaimed that there is no God has died.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Danish Lutheran minister who attracted global consideration by proclaiming that there just isn’t this kind of thing as a God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died. He used to be 72.

The Rev. Thorkild Grosboell died Sunday and had been littered with most cancers, his daughter Mette Kathrine Grosboell urged The Connected Press.

“He used to be a immense man. He have to be remembered for that,” she talked about Monday.

Grosboell used to be suspended by his bishop after a Could per chance well neutral 2003 newspaper interview wherein he talked about, “There would possibly be not any shapely God, there just isn’t this kind of thing as a eternal lifestyles, there just isn’t this kind of thing as a resurrection.”

Helsingoer bishop Lise-Lotte Get up, whose diocese included Taarbaek, a diminutive metropolis north of Copenhagen the place Grosboell used to be the pastor, handed his case to the executive asking for that it steal the dear steps to push aside him.

InDenmark, Lutheran ministers are employed by the notify and simplest the executive can fire them after a recommendation from their supervising bishop.

Grosboell in the end retracted his assertion, apologized and his suspension used to be lifted.

More than 80% ofDenmark‘s inhabitants belongs to the Grunt Evangelical Lutheran Church, even though simplest about 5% abet church products and services regularly.