The state of being controlled by guilt and fear by something for which there is absolutely no evidence and against which all available evidence points.
The opposing argument is that without faith it is impossible to please God, so in order to experience him we must put aside all of our critical investigation skills and believe that he exists, even when all evidence we do have leads us to a universe that came into being entirely through natural causes.
This unfounded belief leads directly to the point where I started, wherein escape from irrationality is extremely hard, since we have accepted something without evidence and dismissed critical evidence based thinking.
The very act of faith causes us to give up our ability to reason, and when we no longer agree it is difficult to break free because we are now bound by a fear that, had reason and evidence prevailed, should not have been accepted as valid in the first place.
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