{"id":1791,"date":"2016-01-05T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoboctn.com\/2016\/01\/05\/i-do-not-pretend-to-be-able-to-prove-that-there-is\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:03:51","slug":"i-do-not-pretend-to-be-able-to-prove-that-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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.<br \/>\n\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e16\u0e08\u0e30\u0e41\u0e2a\u0e23\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e33\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e16\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e08\u0e19\u0e4c\u0e44\u0e14\u0e49\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e21\u0e35\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48\u0e08\u0e23\u0e34\u0e07, \u0e1c\u0e21\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e2a\u0e32\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e16\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e08\u0e19\u0e4c\u0e44\u0e14\u0e49\u0e40\u0e0a\u0e48\u0e19\u0e01\u0e31\u0e19\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e0b\u0e32\u0e15\u0e32\u0e19\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19\u0e40\u0e1e\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07\u0e41\u0e04\u0e48\u0e19\u0e34\u0e22\u0e32\u0e22, \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e30\u0e04\u0e23\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e15\u0e4c\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e08\u0e08\u0e30\u0e21\u0e35\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48, \u0e2b\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e40\u0e17\u0e1e\u0e40\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e42\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e34\u0e21\u0e1b\u0e31\u0e2a, \u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e2d\u0e35\u0e22\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e15\u0e4c, \u0e2b\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1a\u0e32\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e42\u0e25\u0e19 \u00a0\u0e41\u0e15\u0e48\u0e17\u0e24\u0e29\u0e0f\u0e35\u0e2a\u0e21\u0e21\u0e38\u0e15\u0e34\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e48\u0e32\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e01\u0e47\u0e40\u0e0a\u0e48\u0e19\u0e40\u0e14\u0e35\u0e22\u0e27\u0e01\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e44\u0e14\u0e49\u0e21\u0e35\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e19\u0e43\u0e14\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e01\u0e31\u0e19\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48 \u0e40\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e32\u0e30\u0e25\u0e49\u0e27\u0e19\u0e42\u0e01\u0e2b\u0e01\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e23\u0e39\u0e49, \u0e21\u0e31\u0e19\u0e08\u0e36\u0e07\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e21\u0e35\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e42\u0e22\u0e0a\u0e19\u0e4c\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e19\u0e43\u0e14\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e08\u0e30\u0e01\u0e31\u0e07\u0e27\u0e25\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e48\u0e07\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e15\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e41\u0e15\u0e48\u0e15\u0e49\u0e19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}