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Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays Quotes: God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
         

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.


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God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
         



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