George Perdikis, one of The Newsboys' original members is now an atheist. He says he's lost his faith in God and adds that the current members of the world-renowned Christian rock band aren't as holy as they profess.

"I always felt uncomfortable with the strict rules imposed by Christianity. All I wanted to do was create and play rock and roll.. and yet most of the attention I received was focused on how well I maintained the impossible standards of religion. I wanted my life to be measured by music, not by my ability to resist temptation," Perdikis wrote in a Patheos blog.

Perdikis left The Newsboys in 1990. The co-founder of the band explains in the post how he started his own "voyage of inquiry" into what he used to believed and explored cosmology. By 2007, he renounced Christianity and finally declared himself an atheist.

"The Christian music scene is populated by many people who act as though they have a direct hotline to a God who supplies them with the answers to the Universe. The re seems to be more ego and narcissism amongst Christian musicians than their secular counterparts," he said.

The Newsboys was founded in 1986 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. The two began jamming and making music together since then. Their identity as Christian band was influenced greatly by Furler's Christian parents.

More than two decades later, the band has six number one Christian singles and even won "Group/Duo of the Year" award at K-Love's 2014. However, Perdikis never experienced fame as he left the group in 1990. By 2009 of September, all the original members of the band had left and were replaced by vocalist Michael Tait, along with Jeff Frankenstein, Jody Davis and Duncan Phillips.

David Wagner, the co-manager of the band since 1996, did not wish to make any comment on Perdikis' post. Wagner said, "he's a former member who we haven't had any interaction or heard from in more than 20 years."