In an article titled "Is There a God?" commissioned, but never published, by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell wrote: Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.
Nun artigo titulado Existe un Deus?, encargado (aínda que nunca publicado) en 1952 pola revista Illustrated, Russell escribiu o seguinte: Moitos individuos ortodoxos dan a entender que é papel dos escépticos refutar os dogmas relixiosos, en vez de que os dogmáticos sexan os que teñan que probalos.