Faith seems to be in diminishing quantity these days. Polls show organized religion is on the decline in America and many other nations, and people still claiming religious belief are visiting their respective houses of worship far less than their forefathers typically did. This fact may be due to millennia of religious oppression, corruption, and even occasionally unbridled malintent culminating into a degenerated concept that is now often treated with scrutiny and a palpable degree of suspicion. Sometimes it is, instead, outright contempt.
Frankly, I do not discourage those who have a distaste for religion, and nor do I particularly care about this aspect. But I fear that devaluating "the power of faith" will cost us Americans a valuable trait, when it’s stripped free of what consistently seem to be symbolic religious associations, that is. Faith is vastly underestimated as a positive quality, so I would like to speak about the potential advantage of having faith, unbound by preconceived ties to religion.