Dan Barker
Dan Barker
Daniel Edwin "Dan" Barkeris an American atheist activist who served as a Christian preacher and musician for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. Barker, along with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, is the current co-president 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...
atheist fall religion
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
kindness love-you love-is
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....
past destiny compassion
As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
beauty garden people
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
son atheism speech
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
needs savior sinner
Only sinners need saviors.
religion atheism current-events
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.
atheist prayer believe
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
bible baby water
I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
prayer children differences
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
prayer law atheism
Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
prayer atheism answers
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
atheist book believe
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
biblical tyrants two
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!