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...
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.
believe differences atheism
Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.
religion atheism admitting
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 can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
religion wish atheism
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 an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.
divorce years atheism
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 and it's over.
prayer law atheism
Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
religion atheism current-events
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. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.
prayer atheism answers
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
son atheism speech
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
opposites safety 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 true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.
atheist doubt atheism
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: no evidence, no belief.
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.
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We think cellular companies in Brazil will go through consolidation.