When used to encapsulate collective faith in a man-made deity, it is a word that willingly promotes: sexism, racism, masochism, obscurantism, as well as many other cruel and unjust ‘isms’. This is not only a word but a practice that serves no purpose in a modern society looking to free itself of oppression and encourage equality.
"I want to live my life taking the risk all the time: that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom."