Belief

Angels and demons are not useful in the story we tell because we can’t see them. There is no evidence to support their interference with our lives. And yet, they still persist. Because that is how powerful a story can be. Ideas rarely need evidence. What they need is to evoke a powerful enough emotion within ourselves. Over time, ideas can even insulate themselves: classify themselves as sacred, have laws around them, become addicting…they persist only cause of our beliefs. These ideas clearly need humans to survive. But do humans need ideas?