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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

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

Alternatives Atheism Atheist
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 SMOKER

Course Life Make Purpose Say Simply
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

Atheist Claim Feet Fool Pride
As for an eternity in heaven – that would be hell!
BARBARA SMOKER

Eternity Heaven Hell
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

Atheism Fantasy God Moving Mysterious Smokescreen Way
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

Hymns Prayer Wise
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 SMOKER

Atheism Forever Giving
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

Believe Expectations People

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.

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