Other views:
“There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.” —Mark Twain
“The costliest of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” —H.L. Mencken
Which proves the point of the article.
It’s clear that neither of those people know what faith is.
People don’t understand faith and so they mock it.
A blind man would likely mock the concept of light as well.