In the twinkling cosmos beyond, there stirs a sentiment of nothingness. This lingering idea, this death, rolls across the empty chamber of the universe like a tide over the black abyss. While the great minds of the ancient world pondered the majesty of a Creator, an arbiter of justice for some, or a conceptual perfection of ineffability for others, the idea lay dormant. It was only ever uttered as an accusation toward enemies of the classical gods and goddesses, first weaponized by the polytheistic Greeks and Romans as a characterization of their foes, the Hebrews, and later, the early Christians. They were called atheists.