" The atheist who proudly and persistently strives to convince others that there is no God does so out of a devotion to the absolute, to the highest of values, to the divine. It is an old maxim—one that infuriates many unbelievers, but that happens to be true nonetheless—that one cannot meaningfully reject belief in the God of classical theism. If one refuses to believe in God out of one’s love of the truth, one affirms the reality of God in that very act of rejection. "

― David Bentley Hart , The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss