Since atheism was considered a capital offense by the Greeks, Greek thinkers beginning with Thales of Miletus, who lived circa 585 BCE, carefully avoided any outright rejection of religious belief.
It was known as pastafarians as sort of an analogy to atheism that was something silly and fun, it's a basically a flying bowl of spaghetti with eyes and meatballs.
One after another brought companions there, and, apparently fascinated by their own reflection, broke out passionately against the expression they felt in the figure of despair, of atheism, of denial.
The Church alone had constantly protested that anarchy was not order, that Satan was not God, that pantheism was worse than atheism, and that Unity could not be proved as a contradiction.
Francis Bacon was right when he said, three hundred and fifty years ago: " A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" .