D-list actor Kevin Sorbo recently had a leading role in the right-wing Christian film “God Is Not Dead,” in which he played a smug atheist college professor who seeks to destroy the faith of his students.

In promoting the film, which is now out on DVD, Sorbo has been making the rounds on Christian television and radio programs, saying that he based his portrayal in the film on all the angry and bitter atheists that he is always seeing on television.

Yesterday, Sorbo was a guest on End Times fanatic Rick Wiles’ radio program, where the two concluded that atheists are so angry because they secretly know that God does exist and hate him for “judging how they live their life.”

Sorbo said he doesn’t understand why atheists are so “filled with just hatred and anger,” saying that he feels sorry for them but also can’t help but laugh at them for spending “so much time ranting and raving about something that they don’t believe in.”

Wiles agreed, saying that he doesn’t “believe in the Tooth Fairy but I don’t spend all my time from trying to stop people from believing in the Tooth Fairy.”

Of course, one could just as well make the same point in response to Sorbo and Wiles, noting that while they don’t believe in atheism, they sure do seem to be spending a lot of time ranting and raving about it.

In the end, both Wiles and Sorbo agreed that the real reason atheists are so angry is because, deep down, they know that God exists.

“The truth is,” Wiles said, “they know he exists and they hate him. That’s what it’s all about.”

“That is exactly what it is,” Sorbo responded. “I know these guys must believe in something, otherwise they wouldn’t get so angry about it and they don’t like the fact that there is a higher power out there that is judging how they live their life”: