Make sure that your standards of evidence are as high as you would expect your brain surgeon's standards of evidence to be if they had to diagnose a problem in your brain and operate on you. If they said that they have a book from a few thousand years ago that gives them all the answers and that you just have to have faith that it will work...find a different surgeon. That tends to be the dividing line between what people espouse to believe, and what people ACTUALLY believe in practice. When it actually becomes real and comes time to put your beliefs to the test, you tend to see a drastic change in how their reasoning changes. Honestly, think about it. If somebody truly believes that prayers are answered and that god is in control and that there is no reason to be afraid, march them onto a busy interstate at rush hour. Tell them to pray for safe passage across the road. Have them close their eyes and start walking to the other side. Do this 10...
One word, one phrase. That's all it takes to send your mind in a million different directions. But what is the right word? What is the right phrase? That's the Sparkk.