In the USA about 80% of the adult population believes in God. A good percentage of these believers are un-churched. A smaller percentage of those who do attend church are really dogmatic about their beliefs. Most of the population of our country is rather casual about the belief in God. It is my opinion that most believers prefer to avoid such labels as radical, fanatical, close-minded, etc. These people can be called the middle of the road group that both political parties must appeal to in order to win elections.

Most of the middle of the road persons think of themselves as fair minded, thoughtful, and discrete in behavior. But I doubt that very few of these people have thought out and then accepted the system of ethics, ontology, cosmology, epistemology, logic or science. Most people seem to be programmed to be pragmatist from birth. Baby cries. Baby is fed. Baby learns crying is good. Latter in life this behavior must be changed. Eventually to get what it wants the chjld must learn to talk and to ask for what it wants. The baby grows to this mature stage without thinking out the complete process.

In just as a real process a mature adult has worked out fundamental beliefs about the universe and the God in that universe. He may not have taken time to consciously think through his ontological belief about God, but this does not mean that his belief about being does not work for him. Problems will occur when his beliefs competes or interferes with other peoples' belief system. Then comes war, fights, murder, etc.

It is at this point that reassessment of values and beliefs of being need to be made. The person who does the reassessment is the philosopher. The philosopher of religion has a big job and must use all his tools. His tools are reasoning, logic, intuition, science, experience, and objectivity. Closely related to intuition is revelation, innate knowledge and self evident truths (see the Constitution of the USA).

After having used all the tools of philosophy, the philosopher still must admit that God or truth can not be defiantly proven to be. He will have discovered much evidence through a careful study of history, man, an man's reaction to what man called God, but the true philosopher will admit that there is good arguments against whatever has been chosen to be the truth.

In the end the true philosopher will be forced to chose the theory of the universe that makes the most sense to him, all this while he continues to study ontology and cosmology. He choses because life must go forward while searching to know more about God.

I hope this helps.