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Appease Quotes by Dan Barker

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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…

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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…

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“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity,…

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever…

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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

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

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“Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding…

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It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

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I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers…

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Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

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Truth does not demand belief...

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I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make…

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can…

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There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for…

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