I think that is part of the problem. The best definition of faith I have come across "Faith: Believing something you know isn't true." By indulging people "of faith" we give them legitimacy. The end result is the rise of anti-vaxers, flat earth believers, cults and human suffering on an industrial scale. Doing the "right" thing should be motivation enough, why do so many feel they must do it to get into heaven or to please their invisible, unproven, unreachable, uncommunicative overlord?

Yeah, I attempted to introduce that concept. Faith is the lynchpin to their beliefs. And since I can't force myself to turn off my common sense, I can't have faith. It makes no sense to me. Over time, I have realized that more people are really agnostic and atheists, but they just do not want to admit it.

I agree with the other folks who have commented about your choice of the word faith. I can respect folks right to believe in the supernatural as long as it is benign but I can't respect anyone believing on faith which is belief without evidence, faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don't have a good reason as Matt Dillahunty says or "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen as Hebrews 11: 1 says. Anyway you look at it, it's not something to respect. Hoping for invisible imaginary beings to be real is not the attribute of people I would tend to respect.

I respect the person who is a religious believer because I am a Humanist. I even respect the person's right to believe what ever they think is right for them to believe.

But faith is believing in something without evidence, and more so, even with evidence to the contrary. And that is illogical, and anti-intellectual. I can not respect the concept of faith.