No reasonable intelligent person actually believes literally in a god do they?

How can they have credibility in any arena if they do?

Boutique superstition is the art of believing the good bits and dismissing the bad, or hypocrisy as it is known.

Intelligent people use the word God as a metaphor. That requires intelligence. I personally don't have any time for mumbling words you know to be medieval superstition but I respect those who like the tradition and comfort.

But to those who say it is real, I ask them what gives them the right to decide which bits are true and which are fantasy. I remember all the old biddies getting cross when the then bishop of Durham pointed out that learned theologists are above believing in fantasy, but see the value of the moral message.