Barbara Smoker Quotes

#1. People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.

Barbara Smoker

#2. Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

Barbara Smoker

#3. As for an eternity in heaven - that would be hell!

Barbara Smoker

#4. As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty
it's the believers who know it all.

Barbara Smoker

#5. To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

Barbara Smoker

#6. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

Barbara Smoker