You talk as if "reason" is the only human faculty. You don't possess intuition? You don't possess trust? You navigate your entire life via reason?
I trust many things, I have faith in many things, of course I possess intuition, I am human.
You forgot to mention imagination, of which some have so much of, it is in runaway mode, and
some just enough to enjoy imaginary thoughts, which is a very enjoyable part of being human.
I've enjoyed many conversations where we say "can you imagine ?-----whatever, then the conversation
can get very carried away, and we can have fun with it, but when it is over, we come back to our
balance again.
I have stated before that the imagination is a very powerful tool in the human brain,
along with convincing oneself, or not,
and I see that, proven in many posts, in the form of religion and god.
I don't believe in any god at all, and I am comfortable and happy and content in my life, and have
no fear of being left out of anything, but very happy to be a child of this earth, of which
I have so much respect.
Nothing in my life has ever led me to believe there is a god, even though I had many years
of catholic teachings as a child, and went to catholic school, and actually, learning so
much about my religion and god, taught me that there is 'none'.
And nothing all thru my life, to the present has changed that, I am still very happy with my
non belief, and know I made the right choice way back then.
'I repeat, I would like to know the real balance of the church 'books', just as I would like to
know the real balance of many large corporate books.'
There are so many sad little sheep giving their money because they want to be on the right side
of things when all is done, well, keep your money, it doesn't matter.
We have to be true to ourselves, and being a follower on a road that tells me to believe in
some god or another is definitely not the road I am on, or wish to be.