Recently, a Facebook “friend” (and, honestly, how many people on your Facebook profile are actually your real-life friends?) posted this little angry nugget of a status update:

________ does not understand how fully-grown adults can still believe in God.

This must put the guy into a perpetual state of confusion, considering the vast majority of the people on this planet believe in God.  Of course, the arrogance implied here is that any fully-grown adult should be mature and intelligent enough to not believe in God.

Really?  If you’re a fully-grown adult, you’re not supposed to believe in God?

Many times, atheists say “well, if there is a God, the burden of proof is on the believers!”

St. Thomas Aquinas’ Unmoved Mover argument (essentially: that things move, that an infinite regress of movers is impossible, therefore there must be an unmoved mover) is good enough for me.  I still have never heard a satisfactory counter-argument, and doubt I ever will.

Of course, usually when the world agrees on something (like the existence of God), the burden of proof actually falls to those in the minority who have a new assertion.  Atheists have nothing to offer here.  Don’t fall for atheists’ pretense of intellectual superiority.  After all, imagine if Galileo’s argument for a Sun-centered universe was “the Sun revolves around the Earth?  Prove it!”

If you’re a fully-grown adult and you believe in God, you deserve kudos, not the snobbery.