Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith!… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“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… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
