In an interview with Lee Strobel, (see The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity 
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
Think about that. How is it possible that over ninety percent of all the human beings who have ever lived – – usually in far more painful circumstances than we – – could believe in God? The objective evidence, just looking at the balance of pleasure and suffering in the world, would not seem to justify believing in an absolutely good God. Yet this has been almost universally believed . . . .
So atheism treats people cheaply. Also, it robs death of meaning, and if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? Atheism cheapens everything it touches – – look at the results of communism the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
And in the end, when the atheist dies and encounters God instead of the nothingness he had predicted, he’ll recognize that atheism was a cheap answer because it refused the only thing that’s not cheap – – the God of infinite value.
See also:
Ravi Zacharias: Do You Lock Your Doors at Night?
Mike Wittmer: Help for Doubters
The Modest Ambitions of Science
