Hm. Okay, say you were on a boat or ship in the middle of an ocean travelling from point A to point B. As you are travelling, it becomes dark, the moon is revealed and a violent storm comes and the ocean water begins to create waves. Your boat / ship is rocking left and right and you really feel like this isn't good. Steering the boat to the right direction becomes hard and you realize now that surviving isn't a guarantee. Will you just be okay with it and say 'well okay, if I die, then I die.' Supposed to fell off that ship into the ocean, chances are, the cold water will put you in shock and you just wont be able to swim but you WILL still try to move around in the water, you WILL still try to survive even though you are in no position to survive. That is having faith, having faith for something to happen. Everyone has 'faith' in that sense because even a baby, not one person, will not try to survive if he is tossed off a ship into the Ocean, even if they are on a ship of people who hate him and the people toss him off and there is no way of him to survive or be rescued, he is still going to try to move around and move his hands and kick his feet and try to live. If you are in that position, kicking your feet and trying to live becomes almost like a natural reaction because of you having faith. I personally think that faith is valued because it gives meaning and motivation in a sense. For example, say my friend's mom has an incurable disease and the doctor says that she is going to die in a few days, they will still have faith because it helps people move on, it gives people motivation to move on. No matter how horrific a situation is, NO ONE likes to / will just give up, no one will, the feeling of just giving up on something and letting yourself or something go away when you dont want it to doesn't feel good and no one can stand it, that is why people create this thing called 'faith' because it gets rid of that feeling which no one can stand up and face. That feeling of hopelessness and the feeling that you want something but cannot have it / that feeling when you dont want something to happen but all facts say that it will happen. Do you get what i'm trying to say? That's just my two cents :s