text: why do people "believe" there is god instead of "knowing".? and the two words don't mean the same. belief is speculating. knowing is fact. belief is a little more than speculating...at first,yes, there is speculation, a sense of wondering...but if/when one follows that speculation, which is a form of urging oneself into studying the "unknown"...one will find evidence to support the belief, until it grows deeper and deeper, beyond the knee-jerking of ego.    there can be, and ultimately is, a point at which belief moves quite effortlessly into knowing...and the knowing is calm without opposite, joy without opposite, peace without opposite...thus cannot be shaken.