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Dan Barker Biography

Daniel Edwin Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an American atheist activist who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and musician for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist.

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The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

Churches, Confused, Fighting, Neutrality, Prayer, Trouble

There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your atheism toward the Roman gods are likely the same reasons I would give for not believing in Jesus.

God, Christian, Jesus, Believing, Christians

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

Bowing, Country, Government, Humbly, Prayer

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

Accusing, Accusing Me, Atheism, Crime, Doubt, Victimless

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Action, Happy, Judgmental, Religion, Think, Thinking

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

Asking, Beauty, Easy, Garden, Gardens, People

You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

Bible, Biblical, Cite, Dig, Love, Tyrants

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

Atheist, Character, Sesame, Suffering, What If

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

Believe, Change, Faith, Intelligent, Unbelief, Views

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

Atheist, Christian, Longer, Religion

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

Agreement, Arguments, Believers, Positive, Productive Life, Religion

The 9
11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

Attack, Faith Based, Initiative, Terrorist

Truth does not demand belief.

Belief, Demand, Doe, Truth

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

Hands, Join, Real, Sunday

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

Atheist, Faith, Gravity, Insecure, Real, Think

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Billions, Blood, Christian, God, Love, Punishment

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Cause, Causes, Faith, Thinking

I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

Christian, Easter, Challenges, Asking, Happened, Proof

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Atheist, Believe, Help, Snakes, Spiritual

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Atheism, Cause, Effects, Observing, Religion, Wish

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