THE BASIS OF THE NEED FOR FAITH AND WHY IT WORKS (AND WHY IT ONLY WORKS FOR SOME)
All religious myths are desirable, intuitionistic, sell and distribute becasue they appeal to animal instincts we can’t rationally inspect. They are just stories. Those stories are useful if you suspend disbelief to further prevent your reason from falsifying them. By suspending disbelief about obvious falsehoods, to sate your primitive animal intutions, you do in fact suppress neuroticism caused by those primitive intuitions given your lack of meaningful responsibility causeal control over your life, social and political anonymitiy irrelevance – all of whch frustrate your brain stem, and limbic system, and cause you stress (lack of mindfulness). Some of us can do only one (belief or reason) some of us can do both belief and reason) and many are in between. If faith works for you it’s not necessarily something you should admit to, but then if it does work for you that’s better than neither faith nor reason working for you. The only thing that matters is knowing what to deliver unto god (faith and obedience), and what to deliver under caesar (truth and reason). In other words, never claim statements of faith are in fact true, only that they are good. Likewise never claim scientific statements are good, only that they are true – and taht ‘good’ is determined only when we voluntarily exchange. This is all there is to know about faith and supernatural vs reason and evidence.7
