Disenchantment, Dogma, and Douthat

Ross Douthat ponders why his brothers and sisters in the ed-ucated elite are averse to religious affiliation. The answer seems simple to me: because religion is a lie. Douthat is "puzzled" that secular-minded people think the rationality of religion has been disproven. We are puzzled that anyone as intelligent as Douthat (my favorite of the Times opinion columnists, though I often disagree with him) can still believe, not just in a higher power or cosmic intelligence, but in the whole menagerie of dogma: miracles, messiahs, resurrections, angels and demons and heavens and hells, the literal truth of ancient myths. Or, at least, I am puzzled by it. The philosophes saw through the falsehood of faith in the seventeen hundreds; I saw through it, one day in yeshiva high school in the midst of my Orthodox Jewish upbringing, at the age of fifteen. I'm frankly surprised that we're still even talking about it.