"Belief" or as its more commonly known "faith" in the religious context is, I reckon, the ultimate expression of a natural Human desire for things to be as we WANT them to be rather than how they're LIKELY to be. Whisper a few magic words on Sundays and live forever with the people you love in paradise! Now, who wouldn't want that to be true (in principal at least) but, from what we know about the Universe and how it works, the chances of it actually being true are more or less zero. On the other hand, the chances of us all being evolved primates living on an insignificant rock spinning in an unimaginably vast universe that isn't even aware that we're here and who think we're clever because we've taken 4 billion years to discover shoes and fire are more or less 100% likely. As Darwin once said however, "there is grandeur in this view of life" if only you open your mind to see it.
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