Check out Plato's cave.
These people are told from an early age what to believe and when you lead them out of the cave (ei enlightenment with atheism) they would rather go back into the "cave" of religion and believe a simple lie.
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Edited by The Cellar Door: 2/4/2015 11:35:58 PMLol as an atheist I would hardly call atheism being "out of the cave". I think you've misunderstood the allegory of the cave.