Dan Barker
Dan Barker
Daniel Edwin "Dan" Barkeris an American atheist activist who served as a Christian preacher and musician for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. Barker, along with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, is the current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist...
above buying changed clever sold
We had sold it above $40, and thought we were very clever buying it back at $21, ... Then it went to $12. And nothing changed with the (stock's) story.
brazil companies
We think cellular companies in Brazil will go through consolidation.
along concerned extremely hand
On the one hand you're very concerned about what's going on, but on the other hand you're extremely optimistic, because these are things that don't come along very often.
kept painfully prices technology worse year
We kept painfully layering on more technology at the end of the year as prices got worse and worse,
broad coming looks run
It's only been a month, so I wouldn't run away with broad conclusions, but it looks like the world is not coming to an end.
atheist two people
People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.
religion needs respectable
Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
running religious common-threads
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?
atheist taken intelligence
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
brother blood forever
We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
dogma clean please
Please clean up after your dogma.
accusing-me doubt atheism
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
mean atheism theism
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
prayer thinking government
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.