Barbara Smoker on claim
Barbara Smoker8 quotes“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.”
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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 SmokerBarbara Smoker 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 SmokerBarbara Smoker 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 SmokerBarbara Smoker As for an eternity in heaven – that would be hell!
Barbara SmokerBarbara Smoker This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.
Barbara SmokerBarbara Smoker The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose – and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it.
Barbara SmokerBarbara Smoker 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 SmokerBarbara Smoker
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Claim it. Believe it. Accept it.
Siza HewwitSiza Hewwit You cannot reclaim what you have spent.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What’s the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.
Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.
Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.
Michael ScottMichael Scott We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.
Chadwick BosemanChadwick Boseman The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass