Dan Barker

Social activist, Organization founder

1949 –

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Who is Dan Barker?

Dan Barker is a prominent American atheist activist who served as a Christian preacher and musician for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. Barker, along with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, is the current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist.

Barker has been an invited speaker at Rock Beyond Belief. He is on the speakers bureau of the Secular Student Alliance.

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Born
Jun 25, 1949
United States of America
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Azusa Pacific University
Lived in
  • Madison

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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