Thank you, @anarchistbanjo for a very interesting take on what is going on in society. You say that you experience the soul, its powers and the spiritual and nonphysical worlds on a daily basis and that your experience is personal to you and cannot be taken from you. I agree with you. A personal experience is not theory even though one cannot explain completely such experiences to others.

There is also the experience of a personal relationship with God and many "religious" people seek group worship and a church, etc. because of that personal experience and not just because they seek external authority that doesn't make sense to them. You mention how people substitute logic and reason for spiritual things and I love your point that morality apart from spirit is not grounded in the divine.

I think faith not based on reason, logic and facts is myth. There is blind faith, for example if a religion tells me that God wants me to kill those who don't believe as I do, that would be unreasonable to me because I believe that God loves all his children, even those who deny him. Faith should be reasonable to the mind whereas reason, logic and facts can take us so far in the understanding of life, faith stands to take us further into discernment and wisdom and the peace of mind that surpasses all understanding. Thanks again. Thank you, @shadowpub