The Importance of Faith in Adulthood

It's difficult to act unconditionally. You love someone knowing you may not be loved in return, but you do it anyway. The world's great religions leverage our human instinct for hope to try to pull people upward toward adult virtues. Unfortunately, as they grow, religions get co-opted by transactional adolescents and narcissistic children. Every human religion succumbs to this failure of moral frailty at some point. No matter how beautiful and pure its doctrines, it ultimately becomes a human institution.