All Dan Barker Quotes
- You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? Atheist
- 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
- How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ? Action
- I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there. All
- 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… Arrogance
- You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. Accusing
- 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:… All
- There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness. Absolutely
- 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… Accept
- 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… All
- 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… Atheism
- 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,… Agreement
- 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.… Atheism
- I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less. Atheism
- 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… All
- If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? All
- Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended? All
- 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… Any
- Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it. Belief
- 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… Belief
- Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’… Asking
- Truth does not demand belief... Belief
- Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. Believe
- 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… All
- People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. Always Asking