Sometime around one o'clock in the morning Helen's heart stopped beating. But that simply means fear doesn't work on everyone. My argument still holds. Fear creates the need to believe in a delusion. Sometimes the need is fulfilled, sometimes not.
Atheists worship at the altar of logic.
They use it to fill the void left by the absence of religious feeling. But logic is a poor substitute and leads nowhere. Of course, deists are often fond of philosophical games, too. Saint Thomas Aquinas set down 12 proofs for the existence of God. But argument alone cannot bridge the chasm of unbelief.