You can present people with solid evidence and some of them will still deny that something is possible or that exceptions can be made. Therefore I don't find it unusual at all for there to be people within Eorzea who don't believe that higher beings actually exist.
Would it be a popular opinion? No. Would they need to keep it to themselves for fear of being persecuted/shunned for it? Most likely!
Furthermore Eorzea isn't a nice place to live. Sooner or later someone is going to go '...hold on, why aren't these divine beings actually intervening to stop innocent men, women and children dying horribly? Maybe they don't exist, they don't care or...they're made up!'
On top of that - and as already mentioned - there's the Garleans and their approach to religion to consider too.
Would it be a popular opinion? No. Would they need to keep it to themselves for fear of being persecuted/shunned for it? Most likely!
Furthermore Eorzea isn't a nice place to live. Sooner or later someone is going to go '...hold on, why aren't these divine beings actually intervening to stop innocent men, women and children dying horribly? Maybe they don't exist, they don't care or...they're made up!'
On top of that - and as already mentioned - there's the Garleans and their approach to religion to consider too.
