Dan Barker Quotes
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
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?
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.
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
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.
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'
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.
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
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.
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?
For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
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.
