Dan Barker Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

• People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

  Dan Barker

  Beauty, Garden, People

• Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Character, Suffering

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