They of whom God is altogether unapprehended are but few in number

RICHARD HOOKER on atheists, quoted in Andrew Brown's blog


The most extreme opposite true religion, is affected atheism. They of whom God is altogether unapprehended are but few in number, and for grossness of wit such, that they hardly and scarcely seem to hold the place of human being. These we should judge to be of all others most miserable, but that a wretcheder sort there are, on whom whereas nature hath bestowed riper capacity, their evil disposition seriously goeth about therewith to apprehend God as being not God. Whereby it cometh to pass that of these two sorts of men, both godless, the one having utterly no knowledge of God, the other study how to persuade themselves that there is no such thing to be known.


















I must say atheism seems to me an overwhelmingly plausible position to hold until one comes to believe and then it is obviously ridiculous.