Faith is a brain function that helps humans survive. Faith is a decision maker that is necessary for human survival because humans can imagine anything – reasonable or not – and claim it as real. Without faith, there would be no way to measure quality, importance, danger or conversely happiness, satisfaction, reward or personal value. In short, faith is a judgment function that helps humans live the best life possible.

Quickly, one is aware that faith is vulnerable. It is vulnerable because each human must construct the morals of their faith in the midst of genetic dysfunction, life experience and daily assumptions based on one’s own unique confrontations with reality.

Religious faith is based on one’s perceptions of universal association, that is, there is a force beyond human physiology that implies moral behavior. A common gesture in this regard is the phrase “What would Jesus do?”

Social faith, that is, the belief that society requires a set of moral behaviors that provide a fair life for everyone does provide guidance but not as an absolute morality because the issues are deeply ingrained in individual need.

Most affective is personal faith that is tuned to each individual’s morality about what is the best decision that will bring “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to the matter at hand. Mariner described such an action in a recent post when an unknown individual driving down the street stopped to help him lift a heavy box.

One’s faith is not written in a hardbound book or even in the depths of Google. Faith acts a lot like muscles. Faith needs continuous faith-building exercises to keep it focused on contemporary situations. Remember that in human societies, the happiness of everyone affects one’s own satisfaction with themselves.

Ancient Mariner