I think of faith as code that is running on your brain, shaping what you perceive to be true in the absence of evidence. Making faith fully compatible with evidential truth and reason is hard, and usually requires minimizing its ontological claims?
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The meaning of our life is based on priors that have been implanted into us by evolution and recent mutations, and cultural software that hooks into them. Religious faith is a particular type of cultural software, one that was deliberately designed to keep the peasants in check.
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Yes, faith is very commonly twisted into that shape by cynical people, unfortunately. But formalized religion provides very useful heuristics by which billions of people make life decisions. Faith is both functional and adaptive.
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