Written by Faith’s an interesting animal. It can lead you to do some pretty stupid things, can inspire you to accomplish some pretty amazing things, and just get you through some pretty crappy things. Some believe it moves mountains. Others argue that it only really distracts, deludes and makes money for the dishonest. I dunno – when people manage to ship the equivalent of a Buick through 352 million miles of bitter cold, radioactive emptiness to perfectly land, via rocket-powered hovering skycrane, exactly when, where and how they planned with spectacular precision, I think it’s fair not to shitcan the faith concept altogether.
But then you got morons who walk on fire and get themselves burnt. And who later, while suffering serious burns, insist that their failure was that they weren’t in “peak state”. I’m sure basic thermodynamics played a role as well, but whatever.
Obviously one breed of faith gets better results than the other.
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