In his statement of this sentence, some think that he avoided speaking clearly on purpose, though it was manifestly without design.
But they judge ill of a man who had not the least art.

It is doubtful whether he means that there is any being happy and immortal, or that if there is any being happy, he must likewise be immortal.

They do not consider that he speaks here, indeed, ambiguously; but in many other places both he and Metrodorus explain themselves as clearly as you have done.

But he believed there are Gods; nor have I ever seen any one who was more exceedingly afraid of what he declared ought to be no objects of fear, namely, death and the Gods, with the apprehensions of which the common rank of people are very little affected; but he says that the minds of all mortals are terrified by them.

Many thousands of men commit robberies in the face of death; others rifle all the temples they can get into: such as these, no doubt, must be greatly terrified, the one by the fears of death, and the others by the fear of the Gods.
But since you dare not (for I am now addressing my discourse to Epicurus himself) absolutely deny the existence of the Gods, what hinders you from ascribing a divine nature to the sun, the world, or some eternal mind?
I never, says he, saw wisdom and a rational soul in any but a human form.