Yep. Faith is not confined solely to outwardly "religious" people, but goes right across the board, and is a key factor in the practices and attitudes of all people.

It is therefore ironical that the non-religious, seemingly pragmatic person ridicules the faith of the religious person, just because it happens to be a different variety of faith than his own...and probably equally ironical when it happens the other way around.

Since we are quite incapable of knowing everything, we must base a great deal of our beliefs and actions upon nothing more substantial than faith...or what might at best be called a hunch or an educated guess.

Everybody does it. It is because people have a great deal of faith in the value of money, for instance, that all kinds of patently insane and destructive things are going on all over this planet at this very moment.

Destroy their faith in the value of money, and they would behave quite differently...though not necessarily any better.

Money, you see, is a reigning god...one that was invented by people a long time ago, and has since grown into the largest, most dominating false idol on the face of the Earth. Treat it as a god, and it becomes a monster. Treat it as a mere tool, and it can be quite useful and beneficial.

- LH