I think its mostly avoidance. Life is hard... Belief is a ready crutch, allowing people to basically say its someone else's fault.
That said, I do have some beliefs that are potentially in that category... Like, Trump is being controlled by aliens, and so are most prominent figures, and these aliens hijacked Christianity and turned it into a mockery of Christ. I think that.
A scary amount of Christians have integrated trump as some sort of prophet or lesser deity. I guess they forgot about how their god feels about false idols.
I have crackpot beliefs same as anyone. A key difference is I'll tell you it is my personal crackpot BS and let you decide for yourself how tight my straitjacket should be. I'm not presenting those things as facts about the world.
