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Yes Alex, they hold up faith as some ultimate virtue - faith is really just a trait of the lazy, too lazy in primary school Year 5 to grasp the 'common ancestor' part of the lesson (don't know what they learn in catholic schools, is it walking on water, decomposing bodies rising up & walking around, virgins giving birth or other such nonsense)?
So many catholic school pupils are still put at a very distinct disadvantage from the woeful neglect of a proper education & some never really recover in later life, it can cloud their judgement forever (unfortunately some even become our prime ministers). Add to that the emotional torture of the young school child being told that they will go to a human though construct called 'hell' if they don't assimilate.
In the time of Shakespeare people thought thunder & lightning were the work of gods. Even today people deny the fossil evidence, the DNA evidence, geological evidence, biological evidence - just to name a few.
The human mind is very susceptible to stories (like a bible story), we relied upon story telling from our primate ancestors in Africa to relay important information to survive. Any story will do - it's how people can be stay transfixed & become emotionally invested to a movie fiction or a TV soap opera as if it were real, Hollywood banks on this human trait.
I misjudged the Q&A compare Tony Jones. Upon further investigation I deduce that he must have mentioned gods just to keep it interesting (all about rating of course) see below, my source - Tony Jones Wikipedia;
Religion and philosophy
On Lateline, Jones told atheist advocate Christopher Hitchens that he plans to give the book Letters to a Young Contrarian to his own sons as "something I really hope that they then pass [on] to their children".[10]
Anyone who endorses the Hitch has got my respect!
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