This pretty much sums up the current condition of the American right:
“It’s easier to believe in a benevolent God — the baby Jesus — than it is in some kind of theory about global warming. It’s just easier, isn’t it not?” – Bill O’Reilly, on The O’Reilly Factor, December 16, 2014.
O’Reilly was making the point that literal belief in the story of Jesus’s virgin birth that is laid out in later gospels is easy, while believing that burning fossil fuels causes climate change is hard.
He’s thinks that this is self-evident and obvious.
Another way of putting this is that O’Reilly thinks it is easier to believe that a woman can be impregnated without sperm than it is to believe the consensus of the scientific community on an issue you don’t understand.
This is also why conservatives find it easy to believe that their party will solve the deficit problem by cutting taxes.
