You've Got To Believe In...a) Yourself; b) God/Some Deity; c) The Tangible Things; or d) None Of The Above

What makes faith so important?

Lots of things.

Faith itself is the basis for the way people live their lives. People who believe in God reflect their faith through their struggles to emulate Jesus' example. Atheists, on the other hand, show their faith that their cannot be a god through the fact that they live their lives based on what they believe is true, which is their faith. Of course, this means that atheists have many different faiths; one atheist could still lead a "morally correct" life believing that it is the right thing to do, even though he/she doesn't know why, while another atheist could go completely down the corrupt path, believing that once he/she dies, everything is over and done for.

Faith is important because it determines how we live here on earth. It's also important because it touches beyond our life here. Many religions hold ideas as to what will happen to people when they die. Christianity says that a person who has accepted Jesus will go to Heaven, while someone who didn't will go to Hell. Buddhism says that a person will be continuously reincarnated until one reaches a state of nirvana (a place of no suffering or pain). Atheism says something along the lines of "There's nothing waiting for you after death."

It's more the fact that it touches on what will happen to a person after death that makes faith important. This is because what a person believes will happen to him/her after he/she dies is the factor the causes him/her to live the life he/she lives. So, in a sense, everyone is living according to their belief in death and life beyond death.

Which points to the logical conclusion that death controls our lives, which is a pretty morbid thought. Basically, faith is important because it reflects our beliefs of not only how to live this life, but of what will happen to us after death, which controls how we live our lives. So death and life have a correlating relationship.

It's cohesive.