Matt and Dan - thank you both for the great discussion. Keep spreading the message. I became an atheist in the past six months after over 50 years in the church. Videos like both of yours and those of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, etc helped me get there. Thank you!

Wow, what a great man. Really, so kind-hearted.

Dan Barker became an ordained minister in a little town 6 miles from my home. When I saw him on the Donahue Show back in the late eighties / early nineties (can't remember which), he was expressing a lot of the same ideas I was mulling over in my own mind at the time. Thank you, Dan Barker. It's nice to see two of my favorite atheists in one place. Matt Dillahunty, I admire the way you think on your feet, dude! I hope to meet you some day.

Love Dan Barker, and have learned a lot from watching many of his debates. Great interview!

I believe pound for pound that Dan is the best out there

Barker is a living legend!

Dan is such a humble guy. Never flaunts or taunts.

Great interview. Barker's books are excellent, too.

I love Dan Barker and his sweet dead mother, what wonderful examples of positive atheism, excellent interview Matt, thanks for posting

A debate introduced me to atheism. I have never believed in a deity (which makes me an atheist) but I hadn't really given it too much thought until I watched the Nye / Ham debate.

Oh Gosh. Dan Barker is just wonderful..

I could listen to Dan Barker for hours.

Great interview , great guest. Wow!

You simply have to admire the simple honesty with which Dan speaks.

Dan, I shook your hand once. A long time ago in Lubbock, Texas. You had a small talk about FFR and it's accomplishments. It was an honor. My Cousin who knew how I felt told me you were coming and went with me to listen. God I would love to pick your brains but alas it's not likely. Thanks for all you do to enlighten us. I'd really like to meet your Wife. Bring her next time you are in Lubbock!

I admire Dan since i watched the Ophra's Show interview.

Absolutely love Dan Barker. I wish everyone was a member of FFRF. Great work.

I love Dan Barker. I remember seeing him and his, soon to wife Annie and Annie's mother Oprah. if you really want to see how much headway and progress has been made then look up some of the old footage. Dan was a pioneer that helped to blaze a trail for atheist and championed the efforts for enforcing the Separation of Church and State.

Thank you Matt and Dan - well done, and MUCH appreciated!!!

I've been an atheist for as long as I can remember. I didn't know there were other atheists and non-religious people out there until I heard about Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor of the "Freedom *From* Religion Foundation". There are others I could mention that I like to listen to and watch, such as Seth Andrews of "The Thinking Atheist", and Hemant Mehta of "The Friendly Atheist". But Dan and Annie Laurie are two of my favourites. Thank you for all you do. :)

I love this guy

Great interview!

Matt D and Dan B - two of the best, 'Godless' was the book that initiated my journey to atheism - Thanks Matt...and Dan

These are 2 of my favorite people to listen to. Saw Dan Barker here in Tucson at an event, got his book Godless signed and came across Matt Dillahunty this past year, who I enjoy listening to and watching on youtube. Also like Seth Andrews. Keep up the good work guys.

Matt, thanks for including your own voiced questions. It is a lot easier to follow than having to read the title cards.

Love Dan barker :3

As always very good.

Thank you for this Matt. Thank you Dan

I find it imppssible not to love Dan Barker's words.

"They don't really know the science. They're just parroting somebody else's work" - spot on.

2 of my favorite & best atheist debaters ever...

Love Dan and the FFRF

Wonderful debater and humility personified. Can listen to him forever.....

Thank you Matt for conducting and sharing this really worthwhile interview. Excellent questions you posed to Dan. Dan Barker is a treasure to the world for tirelessly challenging faith-based belief and for inspiring everyone who is open-minded (whether theist or atheist), to question our presumptions no matter what form those come in. Dan has, in my view, a unique way in which he is able to make arguments that are extremely compelling…..more so than most public speakers I’ve seen. I strongly encourage you Matt, to ask Dan Barker to do additional interviews or discussions with you, some where you would play the devil’s advocate and challenge Dan with some of the more tricky or difficult positions many atheists (myself included in certain regards) are often faced with in debating some theists. For example, from my several years of watching debates between atheists and theists, it seems as if many atheists still struggle with the fine tuning argument. Thanks again for this important interview.

High five to Dan Barker, what a great polemicist and human being.

Very good❤thanks ❤

Very interesting interview.

Two of my favorite people in the same video! :)

Incredibly entertaining.

I think some atheists forget or don't realise that their are a lot of Christians that are ready for a deconversion. I was forced to go to church and church school for the first 20 years of my life. This was pre-internet and so all I knew was the church and it's message. A good debate with people like these two gentlemen would have had a significant impact on my life.

Dan is at a higher level. From a street preacher to someone with one hundred and twenty-one formal debates as an atheist under his belt -- THAT is some STREET cred!

Many thanks. I am also a chosen one like you both ....

"The historicity of the old testament it's not that hard"🤣🤣🤣

That was a fun interview! Dan's book Godless certainly helped propel me towards....well, godlessness. :-) Thanks Matt!

God bless Dan. ;)

"But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also." Genesis 38:9-11 God intervened when someone 'pulls out' but if 19 men highjack aircraft with the intent to murder and destroy he sits idly by and does nothing...

Dan, I‘ve watched quite a few of your debates. I agree with a lot of your arguments. Do you regret your former life as a christian?

You shouldn't have to justify your position to ur family. Exactly Dan! There should be better things to talk about. I've easily been able to discuss with people from a philosophical standpoint. Start there without an agenda, know why you left ur faith dont just do it to be rebellious. I have my solid reasons for leaving my faith

my concept is like" A tree do not creates it's fruits or flowers " it's a part of whole cycles of natural phenomenonal activities. ....

On bible contradictions. Hes right that you should know your stuff about each one, however a quick cheat past that are the contradictions which are numerical. Whenever a story is repeated in the bible and it changes from 2 witnesses to 6, or an army of 1000 becomes half a million then you have many obvious contradictions which cant be refuted, and you can show there are many mistakes in the bible. NonStampCollector does a great video on contradictions which mentions these numerical flaws

what I want to say in the term of Creation and the so called Creator. ....... tree do not creates it's fruits or flowers. .....in relationships of individuality. .......

I’m into existance and nonexistance, Having grown up in a family of zelots, I realized convincing the faithful of being decieved was virtually impossable as they have made financial investments into their fantisies any intelligent investigation would reveal an unavceptable level of gullability, close the mind and continuine funneling money and convincing them selves the love of this imaginary hero from outerspace to be paramount to any contrary evidence.

best quote of the interview 20:03 if your pastor had done a better job then you wouldn't need as much faith.

But the Spirit clearly says that in the last times some will fall away from the faith, listening to deceitful spirits…. Pablo a Timoteo

hey dan barker woof woof haha why does atheist experience disable comments ?

Near the end, personal experience. My family gives me that personal relationship with God crap. I just realized that i could not distinguish my subconscious mind from God. And if God is love then God would want to have a loving emotionally healthy relationship with me. The relationship was rather more like a one sided relationship that also had some crazy making gas-lighting elements to it. Either the relationship with God was toxic or non-existent.

is it just me or did it seem like Dan and Matt were having a pissing contest. lol great talk though.

Hello.. remember that every human been thoughts are product of their experienced from the past either reading or absorption through experience. now the question is what if your thoughts are not developed correctly and your smart brain working hard to prof some thing not exist that really exist and you are being tested this way. try something deferent and that is for a week say that you thoughts are wrong and do not trust your thoughts from the past. and read Shia Islam books along with Quran and I believe you are so smart that will get the massage right away.

that picture is crooked, therefore god

It is no coincidence that the overwhelming majority of "Christians-turned-atheists" belong to the charismatic portion of the professing Church. Unfortunately, they (as a whole but there are exceptions) tend to place little emphasis on the intellect and in some instances even ridicule the idea of wedding the mind to Biblical study.

That’s not don baker

"Does God not exist?" . Wtf. Apologists might be wrong and intellectually dishonest. But boy, aren't they the best mental gymnasts!

It's the only atheist i agree abouth everything. And he isn't even a scientist.

3:00 the unproven known. Irritating!

Losing Your Faith? Your capacity for faith will GROW in the emergency room as the ER nurses scramble to stabilize your vitals.

Humans are God creating within the universe functioning within the same laws that governed the creation of the universe. There is no deity or anything outside of our known universe. Life’s a bitch and then u die. End of story

Merry Christmas to all. May we take this joyous time to celebrate the birth of our Saviour, The Lord Jesus Christ, into the world 2,000 years ago.

only people who ridicule 100% are teenagers or early 20 something discovering youtube

You lost. Go watch NDE's from athiests, scientests, and the average person to the unaverage person. Your point is past stale