“The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good” (Psalm 14:1).
Stephen Charnock: “…No people so untamed where absolute perfect atheism had gained a footing. No one nation of the world known in the time of the Romans that were without their ceremonies, whereby they signified their devotion to a deity. They had their places of worship, where they made their vows, presented their prayers’ offered their sacrifices, and implored the assistance of what they thought to be a god; and in their distresses run immediately, without any deliberation, to their gods: so that the notion of a deity was as inward and settled in them as their own souls, and, indeed, runs in the blood of mankind. The distempers of the understanding cannot utterly deface it; you shall scarce find the most distracted bedlam, in his raving fits, to deny a God, though he may blaspheme, and fancy himself one.”
Clay Miller: Nowhere in history, geographically, has atheism ruled so that it was taken to its logical conclusion: Untamed lawlessness. If there is no God, there is no absolute morality and every man is a law unto himself. There is no nation on record where atheism reigns so supreme that there is no idea of God. There are devotions to deities everywhere. To some atheists this “proves” God is a made up idea. See my March 10th post for some comments on that mindset. To the contrary, if there is a God, it would be evidenced by a universal acknowledgment of a deity. It is in every man’s heart. No matter how much the atheist hates this, he cannot deny that he too has experience with the idea of God. That is why he dedicates so much time to fighting it. It is why he calls himself a name that has reference to the idea of a deity: Atheist-the belief there is no what? God. More later.
