Atheism was a stance more extreme than most were willing to contemplate, and it came with a stigma. Though its Jacobinical resonances were fashionable in 1789, it was to become associated with unpatriotic feeling and Continental immorality, a cause for shame. Of the poets, Shelley is claimed as the most eminent atheist. If ‘On Christianity’ is credited, Shelley never rejected the idea of God or, apparently, immortal life; to that extent, far from being a sceptic, he was among the more devout of the Romantics. Of the Romantics, William Blake was more influenced by the Bible than any, yet he was a dissenter who arrived, via the works of philosophical alchemists such as Jacob Boehme, at the door of Emanuel Swedenborg's New Jerusalem Church in Great Eastcheap, in April 1789. The myth regards the Romantics as atheist because of the presumed influence of the French Revolution.