Your Morning Bertrand
For Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
Week 114 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week Bertrand Russell
“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.”
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God."
No one can prove a negative. That's why the religious say 'I don't need proof, I have faith.'
Me, I have faith that gods of any and every persuasion do not exist.
I'll follow that until I see proof...
Makes one wonder why adults, who presumably have come to understand that theirs is merely one of many fiercely defended views of the cosmos, would so single-mindedly teach [insert your religion here] as truth what they know down deep to be at best conjecture.