Why is faith important?

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No, it is the same. I can verify religious experience, but you cannot. You are just speaking for yourself. But instead of feeling as if you are my spiritual inferior, you claim to know more than I do. Whatever. I realize that some people can verify some of the things that they read in scientific journals. My point was to say that this takes years and years of dilligent study and hard work, much more work than saying "God if you are here, I demand you show yourself in the next 10 seconds, and if you don't, I know you aren't here"

Not even a little. See, here's the thing about scientific experiments: if you're doing them right, and following the same methodology, they will always produce results, and those results will be consistent with the initial experiment.

Oddly though, that doesn't seem to be how religions works. There are plenty of people here testifying to have attempted every possible "experiment" to contact god, all of which have failed. And even the ones who've succeeded, nobody seems to be able to provide a consistent result, it always varies.

You can do science if you try. Everyone can. But it seems that only certain people can do religion. I'd call them gullible, but you'd call them righteous. Because you seem to pride yourself on not wanting to know, in just being satisfied with the answers in your head.

I submit to you that the answers of reality are superior.

I would also add that religion is too messy to begin with even before we do the "experiments". E.g. on one hand, we have someone like Drich saying God doesn't make your wishes come true, and on the other hand, we have jstrodel saying God does make your wishes come true. Two contradictory propositions which means we have no way of setting up an hypothesis to test, given that both are allegedly true from their experiences.