Do you see any benefits to religious faith?

[bennyboy]

I didn't say anything about persuasion of any type, self or otherwise.  Nor did I say that faith is belief.  Can you please stop quoting my posts, and then making up a bunch of bullshit that has no relation to what you quoted?  That's rude and annoying.

Or. . . just shut the fuck up and we can all spray salad on our monitors and PRETEND you posted.

No you didn't.  Which is why I reminded you of it's original meaning. I could give a shit what what the bastardized telephone game says it is 2000 years later of 5000 years later or 10,000 years later. It's like civilizational thread drift and I'm trying to get back to the OP. I'm sure you can understand.

How about you suck on my balls and we call it even?

"Faith" comes from "fides" which means literally to trust or to believe.  There's nothing about spirits fucking reaching out to anybody.  But "having faith" means you hold the belief, and since it's not a logical belief, it's one based on either authority or feeling.

In no universe does it mean what you want it to mean.

As for your balls. . . although I'm old, I'm still worried there's always some danger in choking on small objects-- so I'll pass.