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 a…

- Barbara Smoker

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 b…

- Barbara 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 …

- Barbara Smoker

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

- Barbara Smoker

To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the al…

- Barbara 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 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 rewar…

- Barbara Smoker

Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood, telling …

- 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