When we take on beliefs, we usually do so, because something convince of it being true and for pretty much all people this comes down to the amount and quality of evidence.
We don't normally prefer to take on beliefs, if we don't thing there is anything to back them up. So for instance, most people will have a very difficult time believing that unicorns exists, because we see no evidence for it being the case.
But to me at least, it seems like when you talk with religious people about their faith in a God or the supernatural, that they take an opposite approach.
Meaning....
God exist... therefore I have to find evidence for it
Rather than doing what they would normally do....
I have evidence for this..... therefore I believe it
Now I doubt a lot of religious people will agree with this, so I would like to hear, how that is not the case for your particular belief?
(When I say evidence, I mean something that can be verified as being true one way or another.)
Does anyone remember the Russian Collusion hoax, where the Democrat party, the deep state intelligence agencies and fake news, presented misinformation about President Trump, as evidence of his involvement with the Russians? This turned out to be a coverup of their own crimes. This repetitive brain wash scheme led to most atheists becoming believers in faux evidence. They showed a lot of faith in the wrong things. Many became self proclaimed experts in false things.
The Religious right turned out to be far less likely to be fooled. This result was not what one would expect based on atheists driven topics like this. The question is where was science, to help the atheists make a better judgement? Science is not always the final arbitrator of truth when it come to human nature, games and scams the can misrepresent reality. In this case, many of the scientists, including most who supported the climate change bureaucracy, were fooled by the faux evidence. Even the so called and self proclaimed fact checkers from Google, Twitter and Face Book, were fooled. The wild card was the seedy sides of humans. This is common knowledge to the religious, since they are taught to see and avoid this behavior in oneself.
That was an excellent long term experiment in human nature. It showed us who blindly believes what they want to believe, and who challenges evidence from agenda driven humans, and waits before passing final judgement.
An interesting observation is, I no longer have privileges to particulate in the political section of the forums, even though I aced the collusion delusion hoax test, for critical thinking skills. Why is someone good at truth not allowed? That was a rhetorical question. Is that topic held hostage by left wing propaganda types, whose job is too fool the atheists for the election? Can truth undermines months of brain washing?