Dan Barker was a fundamentalist minister, and a hardcore one at that. For many years he toured North America, convinced Christ would return any day and the world would end, trying to save as many souls as he could in the time remaining. Gradually he made his way to atheism. I just came across his 2010 speech to the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne. He’s a great speaker and his story is compelling.
My favorite quote from the speech:
If the prodigal son is a parable and Adam and Eve are a metaphor then maybe God himself is just one huge figure of speech….
There’s no evidence for a god.
There’s no good arguments for a god.
There’s no coherent definition of a god.
There’s no good replies to the arguments against a god.
There’s no need for a god.
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