Do you see any benefits to religious faith?

[GUBU]

 The experience was not self generated, not produced out of one's own thoughts, it was an outside influence that persuaded them that something was so. And that something is usually described some kind of transcendental "God/heaven" experience that is way beyond one's normal everyday experience.

How do you know the experience was outside generated? And even grqnting that it were how can you say it was a being which breaks all known laws of the universe and which.is said to exist outside the universe (i.e. outsude reality), rather than a far more plausible and mundane explanation, luke a charismatic liar getting his bullshit past some gullible people?

And on your idea that descriptions of "god/heaven" being beyond what people exlerience normally, I call bullshit. I've read lots of descriptions of gods and paradises (including a full read of the bible) and at no stage have I ever seen a god described as anything other than a developmentally stunted human and a paradise as anything other than an equivalent of a rich man's estate in the period the description was given. There is a reason that paradise derives from the Pesrian word for garden, you know. The monotheistic Abrahamic conception of heaven is, essentially a rich and powerful king's pleasure palace.