Atheists are like smokers. Smokers know that smoking is harmful and yet they smoke while consciously suppressing the fact that harm will come to them if they persist. Atheists act as if their feigned unbelief somehow grants them immunity from responsibility vis-à-vis what politicians in the Watergate era once called "plausible denial." Plausible denial won't work with God.

As the passage above indicates, they will concoct theories and create their own little gods and myths including things like earth worship or UFOs — anything to suppress the truth from which they run. They are not fooling God. That's why atheists get so angry about "religion" and pursue dead ends like "freedom from religion." They don't like to be reminded of what is true and the consequences of their self-delusion.