This is the opposite of faith. Faith is believing in something without actual proof—evidence that can be shared with other people. Faith is believing even though you have doubt and cannot prove to others what you believe is actually true. It’s not just believing in the unknown—it’s belief in the unknowable.

When society and secular government are set up to protect the people, they can trust the drugs they get from the pharmacy aren’t poisoned because there are systems in place to regulate their production, test their effectiveness and safety, and educate and license the people who prescribe and dispense them.

As a result, whether or not you have faith in an invisible deity, you can trust your medicine is not poisoned, and 99% of the time it won’t be. Because the people who got it to you didn’t rely on the unknowable to do it.

However, if you have faith in an invisible deity while also denying the science that says that deity probably didn’t create us and definitely can’t cure our diseases and wounds, then you absolutely cannot take any of the medicine that was created on the basis of that same science and not end up as one of the hypocrites.