Atheists blaspheme and giggle like schoolboys. They think themselves daring, subversive, deliciously cunning. But their mockery is utterly conventional. They can do no better than mimic blasphemies learned from the Gospels. Mocking God is not an invention of atheists. It’s what Jews did when their God came close, a burning too hot to endure. It’s what the religious Romans did in the presence of God. Left to ourselves, mockery would have the last word. God has a different project, and he won’t let us get away with ours.
