Suppose someone simply feels indifferent toward Him?
Apathy will still bring one the same result as Gould if he did not come to his senses at the end.
Since this thread is about Gould, I'll quote what he said in a 1997 NPR interview. (I pulled over yesterday when I heard it re-broadcast, to make sure I got it right.)
"God is either an incompetent mathematician, a jokester, or he doesn't exist."
The man spent his life's work de-bunking Almighty God, and even when ill with cancer, couldn't resist mocking Him.
I suppose Gould now knows which, if any, of his three choices was true. But he knows for sure the third isn't.
Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.