Dan Barker Quotes

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.