It seems to me it requires an anti-intellectual bent (I think more common in the States than in Asia where scholarship is honored) to be a Christian nowadays.  Christianity runs so counter in its very nature to what we have learned about cause and effect (no curses, no original sin, no demon possession) as well as to what we know about nature (species are not fixed, it is possible to change genetic makeup of organisms artificially) and of course what we know about the mind (no soul).

Those who want to believe can do so in spite of modern knowledge only by holding their hands over their eyes and ears (sorry that takes four hands to do well) and refusing to hear.