He could see now through all his rationalizations. His arguments against belief in a Creator had never been intellectual ones as he had claimed. By rejecting a Creator, he thought he could rid himself of a Judge. But it had not worked. His atheism had been the opiate of his soul and the executioner of uncalculated millions. But now his comforting atheism could no longer exist, even for a fleeting moment, for he had been forever stripped of the power to deny reality.
