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Religion and faith at their best are the fires that drive people like Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Saint Francis.
From a Catholic perspective, a follower of Jesus is not supposed to just lead a good life, they are supposed to lead a saintly life as exemplified by someone like Mother Teresa. She may not be officially a saint, but I use her as an example because she is well known and her life speaks for itself. She is an example of the kind of demands Jesus in the Bible asks of those who would follow him. Most Christians fall a bit short, no? Faith is a way of drawing strength from God when human strength would fail.
Lumberjim asks why are we supposed to have faith. Faith is supposed to make us more than what we are without it. That is why it is so badly needed.
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