Dan Barker Quotes

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• You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
• 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…
• How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
• I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of…
• You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
• I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it:…
• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
• If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you…
• 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…
• There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire…
• 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,…
• 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.…
• I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be…
• If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
• Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?
• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and…
• Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
• 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…

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