121 Quotes by Dan Barker

You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

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

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?

We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.

Please clean up after your dogma.

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

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

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.