Atheism takes many forms,” writes Frossard. “There is philosophical atheism, which, identifying God with nature, denies Him a separate personhood and places all things within the ambit of human intelligence; nothing is God, everything is divine. This form of atheism leads to pantheism in the guise of one ideology or another. Scientific atheism rejects the hypothesis of God as unsuitable for inquiry and strives to explain the existence of the world exclusively in terms of its material properties, but without inquiring as to the provenance of matter. The still more radical form of Marxist atheism not only denies God, but would send Him on a vacation even if He did exist, for His troublesome presence would interfere with the free play of the human will. There is also the most widespread form of atheism, which I know all too well—idiotic atheism. Idiotic atheism poses no questions. It considers as natural man’s existence upon a fiery ball covered by a thin crust of dry mud and spinning on its own axis at twice the speed of sound around the Sun—a kind of hydrogen bomb hurtling through space among billions of lampions (stars) of mysterious origin and unknown destiny.”