Clarence DarrowI believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Bertrand Russell believed in the existence of God, but he did not believe that God was a person. He did not believe that people could go to heaven or hell after they died. He did not believe in heaven or hell.
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