“In the sphere of religion, proofs for the existence of God don't always sway people into belief (the ontological argument of Anselm is notorious for not converting those who think it is sound); intellectual solutions to the problem of evil, however formidable, often fail to soothe the gut-level feeling that a perfect God would not allow evil; and, by the same token, objections to a theistic position don't always translate into the abandonment of belief, because other forces shape us.”