pretend able prove no God. equally cannot prove Satan a fiction. Chris — Bertrand Russell, a Christian Essays Religion Related Subjects

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

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