Klaas Hendrikse

Klaas Hendrikse (September 1, 1947, Groot-Ammers – June 26, 2018, Middelburg) was a Dutch minister of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) who was known as ('the atheist pastor'). Hendrikse later said that he did not consider himself to be an atheist, but tried to stay close to atheism in his choice of words and away from the "jargon of the church".

The PKN considered taking disciplinary action against Hendrikse, but dropped the case in 2009. PKN authorities stated that such a case would result in "a protracted discussion about the meanings of words that in the end will produce little clarity." Hendrikse said that he would "rather remain as a louse in the fur of the PKN" than leave and form his own religious community. Hendrikse died in 2018.

Books Believing in a God that does not exist: the manifesto of an atheist pastor (2007) God does not exist and Jesus is his son (2011)