"Belief, then, becomes a tangible, morally significant choice: the grounds for doubting and believing are persuasive and authentic, in order that the choices we make be more fully representative of who we are and what we love. This life, in fact, might be seen as God’s ultimate gift of (self) revelation: that we make our home in a place far from God’s overt presence in order to learn more fully who we really are and what we really desire. Choosing belief, then, does the work of this self-revealing." -Terryl Givens

• Barnum Effect.

• Confirmation Bias.

• The Natural Selection of Ideas. Perhaps today's religions are the unprovable ideologies that have survived millennia.

• Genetics.

• Social Pressures and Group Think.

• Survivor Bias.

• Conditioning.