adagia

"It is the belief not the god that counts" - Wallace Stevens

This quote really hits home with me as an agnostic. I was raised without religion, and such have always thought of it as illogical, but there is something to be said for having faith, for being in this way illogical. In its best form, religion fills people with hope. Whether that hope is for a better life after this one, that people will reap what they sough, or that simply there is someone watching out for us, religion gives hope. People of faith sacrifice logic for hope, which is in a lot of ways stronger, in that logic can be disproved, and thus taken away, but faith is harder to shake. Its for this reason I have always been envious of those with faith because even if they are wrong and I'm right, and we all just go into the ground when we die, they'll still have lived every day of there lives unaware of the great nothing to come, and were able to hope for something more.