Quotes by Dan Barker

Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

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Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

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Life Is Like

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Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

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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.

Atheism

Believe

Differences

Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, “Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I’d better decide to do it.

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Agency

Decision

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Causes

Faith

Thinking

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

Needs

Religion

Respectable

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Action

Religion

Thinking

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.

Atheist

Doubt

Religion

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

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Love

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Quotes by Dan Barker

Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

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.

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

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

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

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.

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