The most insular and religiously devout hasidic communities contain no small number of members who have lost their faith yet do not wish to leave the society in which they were raised. According to Batya Ungar-Sargon,
[There are] hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men and women whose encounters with evolution, science, new atheism, and biblical criticism have led them to the conclusion that there is no God, and yet whose social, economic, and familial connections to the ultra-Orthodox and hasidic communities prevent them from giving up the rituals of faith. Those I spoke to could not bring themselves to upend their families and their children’s lives. With too much integrity to believe, they also have too much to leave behind, and so they remain closeted atheists within ultra-Orthodox communities.
Read more on Aeon: http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-double-life-of-hasidic-atheists/