I trust the brain that God gave me to decypher the things I read & to properly apply the knowledge I have gained through experience. Idk how else to go about living.

I think it makes perfect sense that people may reach a far greater understanding of God by studying those persecuted for telling the truth. But the sort who want you to believe there is some sort of damnation waiting for those who question or stray from their particular interpretation of the Bible are just people who have been trained to be afraid to think. If "having faith" were to mean not thinking or questioning too much, then I'd say fuck faith. But I think that version of Christianity is actually just a sort of corruption.