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Book Review: The Good Atheist - That's what he/she said!

I bent the binding of The Good Atheist, Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, by Dan Barker, in hopes that I would either come out of it in some way affirmed or finally have a resource for a person struggling with the decision to let go of their faith. When I closed the book, I felt like a sore eared member of the choir. The majority of Barker’s book is an appeal to authority and celebrity, a mishap of astonishing proportion when speaking about, to, or for, a community that…

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Added by LaRae Meadows on May 5, 2011 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Be Good For Goodness' Sake

Holy cow — the atheists are proselytizing! I unveil Connecticut Valley Atheists' latest offering to the Vernon Green and demonstrate how the myths of religion and Santa Claus teach believers to behave in order to earn a reward, while atheism offers the only path to true, unrewarded morality in this week's CVA Vlog.…

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Added by Dan Xenatro on December 7, 2010 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

Atheism vs Agnosticism on NPR

Just before Thanksgiving, CVA president Dennis Paul Himes and I were guests on National Public Radio’s the Colin McEnroe…

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Added by Dan Xenatro on December 7, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Fox and Friends Clips Embarrassing Bits from Dan Barker Interview

What's the difference between these two videos of the same interview between Fox and Friends' Dave Briggs and FFRF's Dan Barker?…

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Added by Shell on May 10, 2010 at 7:08pm — 3 Comments

Currently reading Godless by Dan Barker..

It's actually quite good. The first few chapters are/were hard to get through because they were just about how evangelical he was and it bored me but then his change and how he started turning to reason is interesting. If you haven't read it, you should. But i'm only on chapter three, but i think its great so far.

And the headline on the front gets you too: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Added by Katie the Ninja on June 27, 2009 at 1:06pm — 4 Comments

Atheism Tapes - interviews

In these off-the-record interviews, neurologist turned playwright, filmmaker and self-described atheist Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with six of today’s leading men of letters and science: biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished… Continue

Added by V1ktor on August 14, 2008 at 5:02pm — No Comments