Just be an atheist it solves all these problems.

I was a die-hard Christian for 40 years then got to a point about where you seem to be. It was temporary and evidence became more important until I identified as atheist and just settled into it. Perhaps your in transition.

I thought you were an atheist?

Perhaps it is cognitive dissonance that "intuitively" pushes our minds to find patterns in the universe including, for example, patterns in clouds where none really exist. We are more comfortable making sense out the world than living in a nonsensical world, and so we do.

I have that same intuition. The nature of that power is a dazzling mystery, and as you say, it’s not anything that can be proven.

Maybe it’s a mistake to objectify that power. Maybe that power is us collectively.

"So, the question is: how it comes that many people holds an arbitrary belief that would effectively influence all aspects of their lives based only on their intuition that they can't explain to even themselves?"

It expresses a desire, the wish for an explanation. We can't stop asking questions, and we will not stop until we have answers. Some people believe they have the answers, others keeping asking many of the same questions...

and the Tralfamadorians say "so it goes".

It’s a religious fallacy that there is order in the world and the universe for that matter. The reality is violence and chaos.

Think Pavlov's dog... It's called conditioning.

This world, with abused children, desparate refugees, exploitation, mass killings, rampant hunger, etc etc etc, appears to you to have "order"???!!!! Really?

Well, we are our own gods, so I believe in myself.

Physics indicates that we are participating in creating our own universes/reality.

“Consciousness is fundamental, and matter is derived from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

Quote:

“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.

Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” – R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature