Misplaced Faith

Faith is an unquestioned belief posited in the absence of fact and is the fertile soil for the institution of superstition.
When people ask me why it is that I don't believe in a god - any god - my stock answer is that I am not a superstitious person. Ironically, they are often defensive and further state that they are not superstitious either.
The definition escapes them.
Plainly put, if there was any sort a deity, there would be overt evidence of being and there would be no question of it's existence. No such evidence exists beyond the realm of faith.