Ep. 69 - Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 23 August 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Dan Barker was a teenage evangelist and longtime preacher before he stepped away from God for good. He is now the co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (along with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor), a group dedicated to the principle of separation of state and church. Barker is also the author of Godless (2008) and Life Driven Purpose (2015). I spoke with Barker about why he goes on The Daily Show even when the segments aren't very kind to him, his next project encouraging people to read the Bible, and how all Christian ministers are "slaves traders." (Yep.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	I am here with Dan Barker.
1:09.0	Dan Barker is one of the co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the author of a couple
1:14.9	really amazing books. One of them is called Godless, which kind of traces his journey from
1:19.8	evangelical Christian, evangelical Christian pastor to an atheist and his latest book which he'll talk
1:26.9	about is called life-driven purpose which is kind of a riff on Rick Warren's book, correct?
1:34.0	That's right, his purpose-driven life book.
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