When you have millions of grown, educated adults who believe in: virgin births??winged horses??talking snakes??angels??djinns??a sky daddy with a "chosen people" to live in a chosen piece of real estate??a man living inside a fish??a worldwide flood avoided by a wooden boat built by a 900 year old man who loaded it with one pair of each animal species (the marine species somehow weren't acknowledged)??resurrections??and the idea that taking a knife to your completely healthy baby boy's genitals is a good idea because a psychotic man named Abraham (who almost killed his own son because he heard voices in his head) circumcised himself with two rocks (yep)...
...it's no wonder that fake news works.