silence

...pragmatic people who abandoned faith for sight and traded worship for religion. That's us, too, our culture, our society.

Certainly there are individuals who are steadfast in their faith, but from the outsider's point of view, God's silence is the only proof they need to say "I told you so."

So it all falls down to choice. We can make a choice for faith over practicality. The capacity to do it is in our DNA... God created us to be able to choose. His silence forces the choice... one way or the other.