A lot of atheists believe they're intellectually superior to the religious. They feel that a belief in God, unfounded in fact, based solely on faith, is inherently stupid. Of course, their active disbelief in god, also unfounded in fact, also based solely on faith, would also be stupid, with the added irrationality of being hypocritical.
Knowing this, some people identify as agnostics just to avoid the leap, thinking this makes them smarter than both the illogical religious and the hypocritical atheists. But these people are the dumbest hypocrites of all, because they too base their lives around an article of faith: a faith in humanity, a belief that a human life is worth something.
Apparently this guy's source of faith was some sort of beverage.
But if you replace the word "person" with the word "demon", and the word "groceries" with "baby carcass meat", you're left with this: "The other day, I saw one demon help another demon with its baby carcass meat. This is proof of the goodness of demonkind."
A practical argument on behalf of man is that if we didn't have faith in humanity, life wouldn't be worth living. This is virtually identical to many Christians' feelings toward God. In fact, when Christians do this with God, they get accused of cherry-picking beliefs to suit their own practical self-interest - of being both illogical and selfish.
An emotional argument on behalf of man is that a faith in humanity is something that just feels true, in your heart, and in your bones. Again, this is no different than the way Christians feel about God.
A biological argument on behalf of man is that we evolved to hold a faith in humanity - the early humans who didn't were either killed or killed themselves, leaving a gene pool predominated by people who value each other. This argument is similar to Christians who say they believe in God simply because their parents believed in God. Inheriting a predisposition to hold a belief doesn't make that belief true.
Because a belief in humanity and a belief in god are both leaps of faith, you'd think agnostics and atheists would be able to understand the mind-frame of the religious, yet typically they don't, typically they're not smart enough to recognize themselves as condescending, illogical hypocrites. It would be safest to have a faith that, unless you're an all-knowing god, there's always gonna be someone smarter than you.
With a possible exception if you're Billy Madison:
"I am the smartest man alive!"
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