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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Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
Alan BullockAlan Bullock My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.
Alan AbelAlan Abel I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.
Al RiesAl Ries It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.
Al AronowitzAl Aronowitz No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid’, the king explained, ‘I have decided to hedge my bets’.
Ahmad ibn RustahAhmad ibn Rustah Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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