"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists." Blaise Pascal I'm interested in the people who are so threatened by having faith in God.  What is it about placing faith in him that threatens them so?  That seems to almost repulse them?  That  prompts  a deep anger toward him and, sometimes, toward people who walk in faith?  Is it the desire to be the "captain of your own boat"?  Is it transference because of how someone treated them at some point in their life?  Is it their intellect that they can't reconcile the unanswered questions with?  Or is it simply they just don't see a reason to believe in anyone but themselves?   I promise I am not passing judgment, I'm simply curious. *   I know, for me, what a life choosing faith has prov...