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Barbara Smoker

  • “To say 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,
    • 1974, in Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed., Women Without Superstition "No Gods--No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ()

Barbara Smoker, English humanist activist, freethought advocate

(1923)