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Everytime I come across religious people I wonder if it's considered sport to conflate faith with religion.
Faith rests on a system of axioms, it's most important in regards to "religion"
>humans are fallible
>humans lie
How many times have you been taught falsehoods and gone on to regurgitate them with unwavering confidence? You lied -- your intent doesn't matter, how you handle your agency and all other gifts bestowed upon you does matter.
Truth is not subjective, but it's approximation is subject to perspective. Embrace your agency and you will invetiably improve your approximation of truth, reject your agency and you lie by default. You don't need to worship egregores to understand that there's a common denominator, you don't need to insult that common denominator by throwing names at it either. You don't need to contribute to the final bastardization of the good religion manages to retain by throwing your fanfiction at it or entertaining that of other humans.
Religions are started by people who have throughout their lives learned lessons of faith through hardship, sacrifice and suffering. They sat down one fateful day and wrote down their lesson so that those who come after are spared the same misery. In a bid to cater and reach as many people as possible they deploy language that is easily exploited and invites malicious actors.
Eventually scripture becomes bloated with fanfiction, the wildest "interpretations" and "commentaries", gets accidently and purposefully mistranslated, editorialized, censored -- "curated" in the worst ways imaginable and left completely at the mercy of the passage of time and the malice of men.
The common denominator bestowed agency and cognition upon you, so why outsource it to merchants and their perpetual retcon?
