Dan Barker - God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Bio:
Dan became a teenage evangelist at age 15. At 16 he was choir librarian for faith-healer Kathryn Kuhlman’s Los Angeles appearances. He received a degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1975. (See ordination.) He served as associate pastor in three California churches: Arcadia Friend’s Church (Quaker), Glengrove Assembly of God (Hacienda Heights), and Standard Christian Center, an independent Charismatic church loosely affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ tradition) in Standard, California. Dan was a Protestant missionary in Mexico for a total of two years.
Dan preached for 19 years. He maintained an ongoing touring musical ministry, including eight years of full-time, cross-country evangelism. An accomplished pianist, record producer, arranger and songwriter, he worked with Christian music companies such as Manna Music and Word Music. For a few years, Dan wrote and produced the annual “Mini Musicale” for Gospel Light Publications’ Vacation Bible School curriculum.
For more than two decades, Dan was accompanist, arranger, and record producer for Manuel Bonilla, the leading Christian singer in the Spanish-speaking world. He accompanied on the piano such Christian personalities as Pat Boone, Jimmy Roberts (of the Lawrence Welk Show), and gospel songwriter Audrey Meier, and was a regular guest on Southern California’s “Praise The Lord” TV show (Spanish). One of Dan’s Christian songs, “There Is One,” was performed by Rev. Robert Schuller’s television choir on the “Hour of Power” broadcast. To this day, he receives royalties from his popular children’s Christian musicals, “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1977), and “His Fleece Was White As Snow” (1978), both published by Manna Music and performed in many countries.
Following five years of reading, Dan gradually outgrew his religious beliefs. “If I had limited myself to Christian authors, I’d still be a Christian today,” Dan says. “I just lost faith in faith.” He announced his atheism publicly in January, 1984. He tells his story in the books Losing Faith in Faith (1992) and Godless (2008).
Dan was PR Director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation from 1987 to 2004. He was elected co-president of the Foundation with Annie Laurie Gaylor in 2004, with whom he is co-host of Freethought Radio, a national weekly talkshow. He is a contributing editor of Freethought Today and is involved with the Foundation’s state/church lawsuits. He regularly travels the country and the world giving lectures, performing concerts, and participating in debates with theists, many at college and university campuses.
Nobody says it better than Dan Barker!
Proud ffrf member. Dan's a great guy. Always a joy to hear him speak.
Don't pass on an excellent talk because of the sound quality. Listening with headphones worked for me.
I TRIED
the folks who wont deal with imperfect audio have questionable motivations for listening in the fist place..
@@krispybacon9285 or, like myself, are not native speakers, which makes this really difficult to listen to.
Would love to listen, but the sound is just too bad. What a pity !!!
Went to this event in Tucson, Dan is a good speaker and has two good books---the one mentioned here and "Godless".
he has turned back (changed his mind, lol) on most of what he said in "godless". But he has been doin that for well over 30years. Just thought you should know, he has openly said this, ..and much more. To be honest, dude intentionally lies and deceives people, he is a joke, and i don't mean that in a slanderous sense. He is just so in love with his rebellion against YHWH that he actually does the opposite of his goal. -i wouldn't buy a book that the author has changed his mind on. Especially while thy contradict themselves so much. Have you seen the debates with James White; Dan gets exposed every single time, and looses his temper! take care
@@Chirhopher If you do not buy books from people may change their mind, you would never find a book.
@@Chirhopher Feel free to point out things that you claim Dan has changed his mind on. Provide proof of some sort of your claim.
Audio is bad, but watched all of it
Unfortunately... the sound. =(
Love your work and style! I'm from Vancouver island and wonder if you are coming close to this way?
I have no idea what Dan is saying because of the lousy sound.
Why, even bother posting this if you cannot hear it?!?!
But the Spirit clearly says that in the last times some will fall away from the faith, listening to deceitful spirits. 2Tim 4:1
I am retired police officer. If I did not intervene to prevent evil when I had the opportunity I would be judged by society to be a worthless piece of crap and that judgement would be well warranted. The same standard should apply to God.
@@awood9991Yes! You are so right!
God seemed to intervene for evil people throughout history. It didn't change with Jeebus and Christianity when they were butchering people, stealing their lands and priceless artifacts.
How fucking evil Christianity is.
The sound is too bad. Haven´t watched it. Gave a downvote instead.
In other versions of the bible other than King James, instead of "hell" the word "gehenna" is there...it refers to a location on earth, a valley where trash and cadavers were placed and burned...
Would have loved to listen to this but the sound is very bad even with my hearing aids.
Why is this posted with this sound?
How can anyone here be defending/arguing when most of us can't hear it?
C'mon! Clearly those arguing his points must be trolls.
How can you hear it when those who support him can't?
I would have loved to listen but it sounded like someone talking out of a tin can.
Terribl sound quality tinny
Bad audio dammit!
cant even get the mike right masters of the universe
We believe in freedom of speech in this country. We also believe in freedom of religion in this country. That means, to those who are truly devoted to their faith, that they follow what their various religious books say. When that is non violent, and is said in a loving and caring way, it is protected in this country. The recent attack by FFR on a cross in a small town in Missouri-by people outside that community-is a wonderful example of inclusion. The argument is that the cross "excludes" non believers. Well, OF COURSE it does, when THEY choose not to believe. It does NOT exclude anyone who is truly willing to believe, so it is not at all excluding anyone apart from their voluntary disbelief. It is a sad truth that those who do not believe in God WILL be excluded for the vastly more important part of their existence-for eternity. This life, which can seem like it is long, is really a rehearsal for what is to come. It is, as someone has said, a brief mission trip. The opening of Psalm 14 basically says it all in one sense.
You don't choose to believe you Muppet.
so if your willing to be an idiot and believe in imaginary friends and talking snakes youre included?
ill be happy to be left out of that group thanks..
The problem with "god is immoral/evil cuz of what he does in the bible" type arguments is that you're granting the reality of the events in the bible for the sake of your argument but conveniently ignoring traits of the character god such as omniscience and moral perfection (sometimes our eternal existence). You want credit for analyzing a story you're not really analyzing. And in general, the problem of evil argument is a weak one because its hidden premise (that god doesn't have morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil/suffering) is never substantiated with an argument/evidence.
God’s supposed omniscience is problematic because it is claimed god has free will and grants it to us as well. Free will and omniscience are paradoxical. How can god have free will and yet know ahead of time each decision he will make? How can we make any decisions of free will that aren’t already known to the omniscient god? If we supposedly make a choice, that would have to be the choice that the omniscient god already knew we would take. How then do we have free will? How does god?
@@MrMattSax There's actually no logical contradiction between "We will choose what to do" and "God knows what we'll choose". His foreknowledge would only be temporally prior to our choices, not logically prior. That is to say, his foreknowledge would be based on our decision.
@@Vic2point0 I’m not buying it. Sounds like a deepity but I don’t think it pans out
Mormon Bishops are not paid
Maybe not in money, however; in the afterlife they will be offered as many wives as they want! What a bunch of pigs!
Why to believe in something that doesn't do any difference at all..!