So, my thoughts about this are thus: Some people need faith in their lives to live a fulfilling and whole life. Some people don't need that, or find that fulfillment in other places. Whatever gets you through the night, to quote the song, is the most important thing. I was not raised in faith, and when I tried organized religion, i found my morals did not jive with the morality therein. I also don't see the evidence for a higher power or afterlife. Where I live, in Canada, church doesn't hold the sway it once did even 50 years ago, and most people I know personally are either not a person of faith, or don't attend an organized church on the regular - it's just not part of our culture at this point. There are a couple of broad realities that one needs to confront when they are a person of faith living in and navigating our modern world: 1.) Just because you are a person of faith does not mean that you have to deny the validity of scientific ideas. Science and faith have intermingled successfully for hundreds of years. Indeed, the Catholic church was a huge element in the scientific world via the Jesuits (including the current pope). 2.) There are millions of people in the world who are of a different faith than you, or of no faith. They are, as a whole, frankly uninterested in what you believe and just want to go about their daily business. Proselytism is the second worst thing about people of extreme faith. 3.) there are lots of details of faiths that do not jive with a secular society. Christianity, for example: LGBT discrimination, in particular, is included in some of the more archaic parts of the bible along with slavery, women being possessions, not wearing clothing of mixed fabrics, not trimming beards, etc. The things to remember are that these are not (and frankly never were) core tenets of the faith. They are an extant example of what life was like when the bible was being written, translated, and condensed. Religions of all kinds are, at a fundamental level, guidelines for life. How one should treat themselves, treat others, and treat the environment around them. I don't think this is what you wanted, but that's the thoughts I had when reading your post.