An argument for Faith and Religion, but you won't like it

Limey, this thread is so we can continue our conversation.

I'm just about 50, and in my late teens and early twenties, I struggled with Faith.

Up to that point, I considered myself Agnostic, which I considered the most intelligent stance on the subject of G-d. My logic was that I was open to the IDEA of G-d, but until I saw even the tiniest shred of proof, I could not believe. And being a lover of science prior to university, and fully trained IN science by the end of it, mere observance of physical phenomena was not good enough to act as proof. But I ran into a simple problem that my stance could not resolve, and it irritated me like a tiny rock in my shoe, constant discomfort as I walked through life.

The problem was Happiness. I was not Happy, and I capitalize that word, because I am not referring to the small happiness one feels when they do well at some task, or eat a special food. I'm talking about the bigger Happiness as an outlook on life. What I realized was that one, I was not Happy, and two, that many with less intelligence than me, were. And when I looked at what those who were Happy had in common, especially in areas of the world less wealthy than mine, I realized it was religion. This bothered me tremendously, because up to that point, I considered religion to be a waste of time at best, and more likely, a  money scam. That pebble in my shoe was not satisfied with this explanation however, and upon examining further, I concluded that it was Faith itself which they had in common. This was logical, because all religions seemed to confer the same Happiness, and the only thing they had in common was Faith.

So I started to look at Faith itself, and the link below is the conclusions I came to, and the demand that as a scientific-minded person, I have Faith. But you are not going to like it.

Freon