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Especially when he was clearly alive while that religion and its teachings were still actively being demonstrated to be true every day and its adherents were shaping the galaxy.
EDIT: ITT people defending their space wizard fairy tales with Doylian arguments.
Did he know the emperor was a Sith who had powers, or was he just one of billions or trillions of people who had never actually interacted with anyone who openly used the force?
Sure, later movies made force use way more commonly used within a couple decades of this guy's bold choice, but at the time of the movie's release it was supposed to be an uncommon thing that hadn't even been around for a very long time.
The Jedi had been around for over 25,000 years before A New Hope. There had to be volumes of evidence for Jedi powers by the time of that film.
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-jedi-order-origin-timeline-canon/
The guy in the meme and Han Solo were just Straw Atheists I'm afraid.
Edit: "For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic, before the dark times. Before the Empire." -Obi Wan in ANH