> Like, your average priest: how many actually believe? Is it really most of them? Mother Theresa's personal diaries, anecdotally, complained about her frustr

> Like, your average priest: how many actually believe? Is it really most of them? Mother Theresa's personal diaries, anecdotally, complained about her frustration with her own lack of faith. I personally think that the people who believe active supernatural intervention is a genuine possibility are comparatively rare in the halls of power, and that this has been true for millennia. To copy/paste from wikipedia's article on "god helps those who help themselves", > The sentiment appears in several ancient Greek tragedies. Sophocles, in his Philoctetes (c. 409 BC), wrote, "No good e'er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act." > Euripides , in the Hippolytus (428 BC), mentions that, "Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid." In his Iphigeneia in Tauris, Orestes says, "I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally." So even back then, there was the attitude of "whether they exist or not, you'll have to live your day-to-day as if you're on your own."