I think you need new friends.

What's he want you to do ?
It's not like you can just decide to have faith. What's he think that There's a switch to turn on or something?
I really don't get these people ?

Faith is pretending to know something you don't. _ peter boghossian

No

Religions teach their disciples to discard any knowledge that is contradictory of the wisdom presented by the religion.

Ingrained dogma bro

Pure and simple fear.

Totally agree that it's a way of coping with the unpleasantness of the world and also maybe to make death seem less scary. But, I also think a lot of people are raised on religion. And there's the double whammy of giving up the security AND religion being somehow connected to their parents. Literally, you are putting down their parents and their very upbringing if you threaten their beliefs.

Hard to say without more specifics, but all the other answers here are excellent.

As a former evangelical, I will just add that if you're conditioned from the cradle that it's maximally naughty to question the tenets of the faith, and that people who go to those places are depraved, it's no wonder he would find your unbelief ... challenging.

For some people they just can't come to terms with havign lived their lived based on lies.

For others they are hapopier believing i a fatasy rather than acknowledging rlife's actual ealities.

It's a way of coping with the unpleasantness of the world, which believers prefer, because their belief remians constant in a variable and unprdictable world.

I think it is because he does not know how to cope with life, bad news, death and other things of the sort. I have found that holds true to such people who are so smart but yet still believe.

I believe it feeds that doubt that most of them harbor.