Very simple explanation: Because it's so easy to paint belief in God as "anti-intellectual" and "hysterical" and "emotional" and "irrational". Sneering at people who "believe" in God is the cheap and easy way to paint yourself as an "intellectual", which is essential to the leftie ego.
You know, I'm constantly in the presence of such people. Their favorite sneer line is, "I don't believe in anything I can't see."
I immediately come back with, "Of course you do. You believe in your great-grandmother, you believe in your husband when he goes around the corner, you believe in polar bears and penguins, you believe in Cleopatra and Abraham Lincoln. You believe in DNA and x-rays. You believe in anger, love, kindness, and charity. You believe in pain and you believe in loneliness. Tell me, how much does a mile of justice weigh?"
Any one of these statements disproves their silly assertion that they don't believe in anything they can't see. You'd think that in the interest of intellectual honesty they would feel obliged to alter their tag line to fit the truth, but what usually happens is they deny that I've disproved their assertion and start calling me names or try to attack me from some other direction. Being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry. Yes, I know there are conservative atheists, but you know this is largely a liberal/conservative issue; that's why you believe all conservatives are Bible-thumping jingoists who cling to their Bibles and their guns, and that to be liberal is to be intelligent, logical, and atheistic.
Prager gave four reasons why he thinks God is faring so poorly. I missed them. I will conclude by saying only that I think it all boils down to that one answer: "I'm an atheist because I'm so smart." Every time I have had a debate or even an argument on this issue, my wonderful reasoning has flummoxed the opposition and they always, ALWAYS fall back on that answer. "I'm too smart to believe in sky fairies," or "You worship some Flying Spaghetti Monster" or some variation thereupon.
Prager once again offered a statement that "sure, of course it's all based on faith" which just makes me angry. When you say "faith" in America, most people think of "blind faith", where you don't know much, you don't have any facts, and you just take a leap into the void and hope that crystal bridge materializes sooner or later beneath your feet. That is NOT faith.
Faith, like "love", is a verb. It's what you do. Greg Koukl defines it as "putting to work your confidence that what you know to be true, works." Thus, when you sit down on a stool, you're exercising your faith that the stool has been properly glued at one time in its life and continues to hold together well enough to support your weight. But it goes deeper even than that. When you marry your sweetie, you're demonstrating your faith in the institution of marriage. When you don't force her to wear a chastity belt, you're exercising your faith in her quality and character. If you've never talked to your wife and have never learnt anything about her character, this could be blind faith, but I hope you've gotten to learn something about who and what quality she is, and your failure to purchase that chastity belt really is an expression of your well-founded (NOT blind) faith in that character.
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