You've probably heard the line, "Dogs don't bark at parked cars"?
Unaware that we live in a universe at war, atheists make no connection between those on the side of God and the attacks / temptations which those people must endure.
Both the Old and Newer Testament are to a large extent documents detailing that war. The war can be described as the relentless push against evil, against which even the gates of hell will not prevail.
The battle is not against original sin but for original glory.
The birth of Jesus was in fact an invasion deep into enemy territory. Demons, sickness, death, violence, abuse, hypocrisy, the war involving Israel and the Church. These things are not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the war involving Israel and the Church. satan has come to steal, kill and destroy. Those on the outside know nothing of temptation. In fact they experience so little temptation that they think they’re good people.
Just as dogs don’t bark at parked cars, satan has no need to disturb the comfortable delusion that atheists cling to.
The corrupt self-loving thought, “I don't need God in order to be a good person,” doesn't even require a “woof.”
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