I'm not religious nor spiritual. I feel like I'm lying to myself when I have faith. To use Kb's words, I just don't have capacity to believe in the unprovable nor do I have the need to believe in the unprovable. It feels like I'm being dishonest to myself. I think we have an innate desire for answers, not for spirituality. Religion has historically been a place where people could find answers to phenomena in their daily life, e.g. lightning struck your house because you angered Zeus. Our modern world is an even more confusing and at times depressing place. I can completely understand why someone would turn to faith for answers to, say, the millions of people dying of hunger, the poverty in the world and come to the conclusion that "everything happens for a reason". But that feels to me like a form of cognitive dissonance. I mean, I don't have the answers, but I am okay with not having the answers.Do you think we have an innate desire for these things?
I think the most wise people I have ever met are the people who say "I don't know" the most often, and the people who are the most pleased to be proven incorrect. I am trying to come to a better place with being wrong about things, to be more excited about new, better information rather than upset at the loss of security in old information.