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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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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Of course it is functional and adaptive, otherwise faith based populations would not have displaced secular ones. However, the adaptive value is very high for agricultural workers in feudalist societies, and rather low for generals, scientists, government advisors and popes.
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