Godless: Dan Barker Lecture

Last night I attended a talk by Dan Barker, of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists. It was a great night shared friends that were believers, past-believers, and non-believers. Dan shared his story of deconversion from Christian to Atheist/Agnostic. It is a very compelling story and I recommend watching the video below of a similar lecture.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an educational group working to maintain separation of church and state. This past spring they celebrated a large victory in the case against National Day of Prayer. A U.S. District Judge, Barbara Crabb, ruled that National Day of Prayer violates the establishment clause of the Constitution's First Amendment. In her ruling, she wrote: "The same law that prohibits the government from declaring a National Day of Prayer also prohibits it from declaring a National Day of Blasphemy."