Denying the Existence of God   “‘The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God”’  He regards him as little as if he had no being.  He said in his heart, not with his tongue, nor in his head: he never firmly thought it, nor openly asserted it.  Shame put a bar to the first, and natural reason to the second; yet, perhaps, he had sometimes some doubts whether there were a God or no.  He wished there were not any, and sometimes hoped there were none at all. He could not raze out the notion of a Deity in his mind, but he neglected the fixing the sense of God in his heart, and made it too much his business to deface and blot out those characters of God in his soul, which had been left under the ruins of original nature."     -- Stephen Charnock  (1628-1680)