Why is faith important?

[Esquilax]

I do not know why some experience more of God than others. It could be due to sin (if I cherished iniquity in my heart, the LORD would not hear me). It could be do to false teachings, and religion.

What an amazing way to continue to believe something, even when all the evidence points the other way; just bounce the blame for failure back onto the people who didn't get the results you wanted!

I do not think that faith is proved demonstrably faulty because people did not get the result that they wanted, or any result that confirmed the experience.

Because that would be a scientific methodology, and if there's one thing we know, god doesn't get along very well with science.

Of course, this is perfectly reasonable, but the fact that many people believe is a form of evidence for the belief, if not proof that it existed. Consider a testimony in a court room. If people simply tell their story, and you don't believe that they are lying, it is reasonble to trust them to a certain degree and seek the matter out deeper.

Ooh, shaky reasoning: the truth isn't contingent on what people think. Large groups of people can still be wrong; after all, I'd hazard a guess you think that anyone following a different religion to you is wrong, regardless of the number of adherents to that religion.