If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist

[R-Farmer]

I am making a distinction between religious belief which is faith based, verses Religious belief/relationship with God which is experienced based. I have pointed out a few time before that religious belief is in fact a group think because you literally have to be told what to believe and this belief is based on nothing more than desire.

However to assume all religious belief is faith based is wrong.

-as an additional point of interest, what are those beliefs doing for you, wherever they fall on that spectrum as you see it?  As in, absent those two things being true, what part of your religion...would be endangered?

All of the religious/faith based parts of my belief would be endanger. Depending on how deep the relationship Goes verse how much of my system of belief is simply faith based on religion.

 Please note that I'm not asking about your superstitions.  Things like a belief in biblical inerrancy

Nothing in the Bible says it is inerrant. God is inerrant, the Bible is not God.

and magic and the wondrous exploits of literary heroes.

Such as?

 Your religion.  

what specifically?

How would your understanding of what is sacred and what is taboo,

Nothing but God is sacred, no trinkets, no books not people places or things.. Also, We are commanded to question all things and to hold on to what is good. IE there are no taboo subjects.

of how to live a good life

to treat others the same way I want to be treated.

and how things ought to be...be changed

With in the confines of the law and or any superior authority or principle that God put into place

- if you did not believe in big boats, and the moral inscrutability of gods?

If I did not believe in God then why would you expect my understanding of the flood would be any different than yours? Does this differing belief not prove that I am clearly not apart of the group think that you yourself belong to?