The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.