Uber religious types will base their entire lifestyle, values, morals etc on whatever faith they choose or happen to be brought up in. However it is based on 'faith' and not 'fact' and my theory is in the back of their minds they hold a dark fear that one day someone will find either proof that all religion is a sham or that there is a god but it happens to be the one from a religion you dont follow. Sort of like the matrix would everyone of us have the strength of mind to survive the knowledge that your entire life has been based on a lie?
Quote from the film Dogma
'“I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth. New ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.”
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