“When I die I hope I’ll have a chance to hit God in the face. If there is a God he already knows about this and he’ll get away – and as an agnostic I probably won’t get the chance. But he deserves it because of everything that happens to you in the third act of life: it’s humiliating and debasing.” Richard Dreyfuss, aging American actor and agnostic speaks of.
Dreyfuss represents many living today. Speaking of the time of Noah, note the bold defiance of the antediluvians in this statement from Patriarchs and Prophets, page 95.
“Some were deeply convicted, and would have heeded the words of warning; but there were so many to jest and ridicule, that they partook of the same spirit, resisted the invitations of mercy, and were soon among the boldest and most defiant scoffers; for none are so reckless and go to such lengths in sin as do those who have once had light, but have resisted the convicting Spirit of God.”
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man” Luke 17:26.