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RE: Is your religious belief based on evidence or faith?
There's nothing supernatural about the heart of religion.
It is a methodology of self-transformation. One leaves behind ignorance, to travel toward the true and immediate knowledge, without the intermediary of the senses or the mind.
I'm not sure how one gets "immediate knowledge" without senses or even a mind, but if by "religion" you mean "wants to get knowledge", then I am religious by that definition - but you should note that's an unusual definition. (Also, as the comedian Emo Philips points out, if by "religious" you mean "likes cole slaw", then I'm fairly relgious by that definition too.)
Of course you are my good man! In some important sense, the craving for religious truth is hard-wired in mankind, as evidenced by the fact that there are no peoples on the earth who do not have gods or songs.
One can always ride out on a fully armored scientific battle horse and knock over the encampments of "organized religion", however that may ultimately not prove very satisfying - too similar to going full Rambo on a bunch of retarded kindergarden age children, defeating them utterly, and raising the atheist flag above their mangled corpses.
The mind and the senses are bypassed by means of diligent introspective practice, ones with real and even measurable effects on the brain's electrochemistry. The very possibility of such a maneuver is left deliberately unexplored and obscure in the western educational system, which aims to produce only specialized worker drones and atheists (ignoramuses) at its every layer except the very elite capstone.