Eh I wouldn't call it futile.
Anything helps. It may not for person X but for person Y it may.
And yeah, impossible to empirically measure God so we gotta look at other stuff
For sure!!! There are different flavors, including guys like westboro that intimidates - works for some, hardly for most LOL
Religion has always been about raising certain emotions (both good and bad) in people—maybe the best mechanism humans have come up with, and it beats advertising to hell.
There's a great scene from the show Firefly where one of the characters tries to rewrite the bible to make it scientifically correct. The other character tells her: "It’s not about making sense. It’s about believing in something. And letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It’s about faith. You don’t fix faith, River. It fixes you."
Ahhhh… If only people could open their hearts and minds and give it a shot!
It will literally CHANGE everything, very hard to explain
And yes, the geeky science stuff comes together as well I promise.
I say this with nothing but love.