Faith Under Attack?

So CNN has had this series on this week called "God's Warriors" that examined the more fundamentalist groups of each of the 3 major religions. I have them all TIVO'd to watch, but was just browsing some of the comments on CNN.com. The question posed, Is faith under attack? Here's some excerpts of the responses which anger me:

"I have faith that one day there will be a world where children are not told untruths. I have faith that one day the majority of people will realize you cannot talk people out of believing improvable and unreasonable things, when you approach them armed with your own improvable and unreasonable beliefs.

I have faith that one day people will realize that, just because religion MAY be a force for good, that it says nothing about whether there is any truth behind it. I have faith that one day the human race will not have faith in things for which there is no scientific evidence.

I have faith that one day the majority of people will realize that morality can and does exist, independent of religion."

"Religion, on the other hand, celebrates closed-mindedness and resistance to change--two behaviors the world does not need today."

"Religion is far too prevalent in American society (I'm an American, now living in Canada). I think that it has a great deal of influence on politics, and most of that influence is negative. There are too many things that intensify tribalism and division between peoples -- without religion we would have one less (major) thing to divide us. On the bright side, the world is less religious than it was a century ago, and I hope that a century from now religion will have become irrelevant; a quaint practice indulged in by a few odd people."

"We will have to learn to live together under a single faith that does not involve an unverifiable higher power such as a God. We should live together under the faith of the Human Species"

...Faith in the Human Species? Are you serious? I mean are you freaking serious? If there is anything what-so-ever that I have almost zero faith in, it is the human species. What have we done but take what was given to us and squander it. The earth, our bodies, our money, relationships, everything used for nothing but ourselves. And that's not the teaching of ANY of the 3 major world religions. Murder, rape, racism, genocide, these are human creations and not the will of God. Those who claim to be the most enlightened because they don't believe in a deity are in actuality some of the most close-minded people I have ever read or met. How is it more open minded and enlightened to say nothing exists outside the material world, despite the fact most of the fundamental questions of where we came from and how life started still cannot even nearly be answered by science. Faith in humans? Don't waste your time, get off your tower.

Faith is under attack, but its a much more subtle attack these days. You aren't burned at the stake, you're crucified in the classroom. You aren't beaten with stones, you're flogged by the intellectual elite for being small minded.

How about this line from a paper authored about the latest findings which suggest the human species branched off from apes far earlier than originally thought. Even those authors who are making this point say "We know nothing about how the human line actually emerged from apes." What? I thought this was all hard and fast. This is the core of what 99% of anti-theists hold to, and even those and the forefront are saying we don't really know (I'm specified anti-theists as those who not only do not believe in God, but they strongly campaign in opposition to God and religion, as those quoted above). Well at least they're being honest. Don't get me wrong, I could care less if evolution were proven to be actually true. Statisticians have long proven that it is statistically impossible for evolution to occur as suggested in the time frame suggested. All that means to me is that if it's true, its no accident.

I'm sick of humanism.

I'm sick of materialism.

I'm sick of existentialism.

I have a lot more I'd like to rant about this, like how science and evolution have actually become a religion, but as this is a group blog, I'd rather just other people chime in. Do you think faith is under attack? Do you think we do a good job of showing faith is worthwhile and relevant?

Cheers.