As for an eternity in heaven – that would be hell!
BARBARA SMOKER
BARBARA SMOKER
Barbara Smoker on eternity
Barbara Smoker8 quotes“As for an eternity in heaven – that would be hell!”
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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 SmokerBarbara Smoker 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 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.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte BardotBrigitte Bardot From the dawn of time to the very last tick of the clock, our purpose has never depended on this world, because it always existed in eternity.
JN FenwickJN Fenwick In the veins of poets flows ink, with which they create words for eternity. When they die a part of their souls will still stay alive in their poetry.
Daniela SenickDaniela Senick An eternity caught within a feeling is called love.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Our love is poetry oozing from our hearts spilling onto bedsheets and tearing us apart. Our love was always meant to be a journey through the cosmos for eternity.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney And you became a piece of me, no matter how far you wandered you’d still live in me.
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