Somebody gave me a piece from The American Scholar by Arthur Crystal, entitled "Why Smart People Believe in God." In the article Crystal mentions some of these smart people —T. S. Elliot, Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Paschal, St. Augustine—, who believe in God. But Arthur Crystal himself does not believe. He gives all the reasons that we're familiar with.

When he nears the end of his article, he says, Christianity, in terms of appeal—, wins hands down. Here's a religion that says God died for sinners so that those sinners might come to heaven. Here is a religion, he says, that beckons us to believe in a God who wants to have us mortals join him in glory and that God has done everything possible to make that happen. He says you just have to acknowledge that this business of coming to God and loving God isn't nonsense. There are too many people who are smart who believe it. Then he says this:

To see the delight in the faces of those who sing his praises to attend Evensong is to feel more than anything else that one has been left out of a secret. It is also to understand that the devout do not simply believe in God, they experience God. And only a fool would prefer the pride of the cynic to such knowledge.