Dan Barker (born June 25 1949) is a prominent American atheist activist who served as a Christian preacher and musician for 17 years, but left Christianity in 1984. He received a degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1975. He served as associate pastor at a Friend's (Quaker) Church, an Assembly of God, and an independent Charismatic church. Wikipedia
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Barker, who hails from a religious family in Southern California, became a singer and evangelist early in his teens. Like Brian Eno, Barker indulged in a brief fascination with the eerie faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, the true heir to America's first majo metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.03.02/barker-0240.html
Quotes from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, crusaders for the ascendancy of individual reason, are everywhere you turn. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F1EF73D590C74...
Barker is the Public Relations Director for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a prominent freethought group based in Madison, Wisconsin. www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Dan_Barker
