Dan Barker Quotes

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

No, I'm not a scientologist.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

When a man is required to believe certain doctrines, he is not free to think. A creed is to keep the mind from inquiry. Questions lead to doubt, and doubt is the death of faith.

… religion is poison

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.