 We don't care if people believe in God or not. We only want those gestures of respect chosen at our discretion to remain in place. Saluting, placing hand over heart, not allowing boys in the girls' locker room, letting the Rio Grande dry up even as we stop people from crossing it, wishing for a second RAV4, maybe have an outer buffet or two at the local community college. Kierkegaard called belief in God a leap of faith, but according to Dennett, it actually comes from little mental hops over centuries. God accrued in our brain, in history, in society, slowly through the development of language and memes, stories, the imagining of beginnings.