Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher To Atheist – Chapter 19 By Dan Barker Dear Theologian I have a few questions, and I thought you would be the right person …
Day: August 7, 1984
Ripples: From Faith To Reason by Dan Barker (January 1984)
By Dan Barker EVERYTHING WE DO in life has ripple effects. Sometimes we see the results, and sometimes we don’t. On January 16, 1984, I sent out this letter announcing …
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I Just Lost Faith In Faith by Dan Barker (June 1984)
This was Dan Barker’s first article for Freethought Today. It ran in the June 1984 issue. Religion is a powerful thing. Few can resist its charms and few can truly …
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Dan Barker’s Online Writing
Dan’s Story I Just Lost Faith In FaithA short version of Dan’s story of deconversion to atheism, after 19 years of preaching. “Losing Faith in Faith” talkListen to Dan’s talk …
Heywood C. Broun
” ‘Virtue is a polite word for fear,’ that is the sort of thing we were writing when we were not empowering some character to say, ‘Honesty is a bedtime …
Noam Chomsky
“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief.” …
Sasha Sagan
“My parents raised me to be skeptical but not cynical.” “My hope is to teach my daughter to face our reality as we understand it through science and find the …
Joni Mitchell
“I’m interested in the prophets of all religions, but the religions themselves don’t make any sense to me.” …
Culbert Olson
“The emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.” …
