<p>A good, cogent post, lizzardfire.</p>
<p>I guess slightly more ontologically tentative minds would refer to the faith whose importance you emphasize as a set of important working assumptions without which it is hard to find fulfillment. In this sense, we are all in a “faithful” frame most of the time. My only point is that it is important to be capable of going into a doubting frame sometimes to remind us that the constructs on which we rely need not be universally sound, and might in fact turn harmful now and then. It takes some subtlety to be able to benefit from the positive support that faith provides without falling prey to a much more harmful kind of dogmatism.</p>