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Daniel Edwin "Dan" Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dan Barker )〕 ==Biography== Barker received a degree in religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1970.〔 He served as associate pastor at a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) church, an Assembly of God, and an independent Charismatic church. To this day, he receives royalties from his popular children's Christian musicals, ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' (1977) and ''His Fleece Was White as Snow'' (1978), both published by Manna Music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Manna Music All Songs List )〕 In 1984 he announced to his friends that he was an atheist, and appeared on AM Chicago (hosted by Oprah Winfrey) later that year on a show about "kicking the religion habit". Barker met Annie Laurie Gaylor when both were guests on the show. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. They have a daughter, Sabrina Delata. A successful musician, Barker has composed over 200 songs that have been published or recorded. He is a member of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware Indian) Tribe of Native Americans, and in 1991 edited and published ''Paradise Remembered'', a collection of his grandfather's stories as a Lenape boy in Indian Territory. Barker belongs to a number of high IQ societies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dan Barker - Freedom From Religion Foundation )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Barker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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