answer:You’re making a rather huge leap in logic. You’re suggesting, in an indirect way, that my denying that the devil exists does in some way prove that the devil exists. I’m not sure what the correct word is for that sort of back-asswards logic, but it’s flawed. It also goes a different direction Couldn’t you say the same about god? The finest trick of God is to persuade you that he does exist.” It’s the reverse of what you posit – that the proof that god does not exist is the fact that he is so open and load about existing? Which in turn, suggests that god is smoke and mirrors and doth protest too much for some entity which is theoretically all powerful. TO me the bottom line is that Baudelaire was blowing smoke, HE wasn’t known as a theologian or a philosopher – he was a poet and an essayist. So I would pretty much ignore his illogical statements.