Dan Barker

“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to…

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

Truth does not demand belief...

— Dan Barker

I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your…

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there…

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking…

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

— Dan Barker

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

— Dan Barker

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

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments…

— Dan Barker

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

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave…

— Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for…

— Dan Barker

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