1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Being a fool he speaks according to his nature. The atheist is a fool
in the heart as well as in the head. With the denial of God as a starting
point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is a rapid, riotous,
raving, ruinous one. No God means no law, no order, no restraint to
lust. Who but a fool would be of this mind? He who heartily entertains a
non-religious spirit, and follows it out to its legitimate issues, is a son of
Belial, dangerous to the commonwealth, irrational and despicable. Every natural
man is more or less a denier of God. Corrupt are they. It is idle to
compliment them as sincere doubters, and amiable thinkers—they are putrid.
There is too much dainty dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless
error, it is an offensive sin. All those who are more or less atheistic in
spirit are in that degree corrupt; their moral nature is decayed. And havedone abominable iniquity. Bad principles soon lead to bad lives. If
everyone is not outwardly vicious it is to be accounted for by the power of
other and better principles, but left to itself the No God spirit would
produce nothing but the most loathsome actions. There is none that doethgood. Without a single exception people have forgotten the right way. This
accusation twice made in the psalm, and repeated by the apostle Paul, is an
indictment most solemn and sweeping, but he who makes it knows what is in man.
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