If we really believe that Abraham followed the path of the fiery furnace, that Nahshon leaped into the Red Sea, that Gideon led 300 soldiers into battle against the mighty enemy, that David walked into combat with the giant Goliath, and that Isaiah spat in the face of the all-powerful Assyrians---then we have cited cases of Jews who truly believed in the only way belief has any meaning, who at the moment of truth risked their lives on the assumption that the G-d of History did indeed exist.
It is not enough to be a comfortably practicing Jew.
Too many "atheists" practice a superficial religious observance, yet join the irreligious in crumbling before the fear of man.
We know the Jew who believes in G-d until the war sends him flying back to the Exile.
The Jew who prays for Zion from a safe distance of 5000 miles.
Under all their prayer shawls is a body that denies the Jewish G-d of History.
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