What is belief?  Why does anyone believe in anything?

There are a number of non-facts that people believe in, for example various so called religious ideas. Resurrection or ascension to heaven.. Nobody has seen them, nobody was there with a video camera. Yet, they are in the books.

So they believe what someone else wrote and the writer probably copied what another guy had said before him.

Is it because they WANT what they believe in to be true?

Why go to the church and listen to a guy talking some nonsense?

Because one is afraid?

One is a Muslim and another guy is a Jew, so they can't live in peace together.

It's a memory in the brain, planted there by the parents, by the school, by the society.

Take nationalities. Why do people believe they are Germans, American, British or Chinese? It is absurd.

Why don't they stop this nonsense and look at the facts? They seek security in mirage.

The beliefs are their demise because one cannot live in psychological health with illusion.