From what I notice, most people believe what they have either been brought up with or in what fits their nature and the ability to adapt to the world around them.
I live in a society that is not very accepting of my nature so I adopted beliefs that help me strengthen my core sense of self, as well as to love and appreciate myself.
Others have a similar nature to myself but they may instead focus on something that instead helps them to better function within this society and ''hide'' as a ''sheep''. They might simply just not care. It is as Isabeau says, to each their own.
As to the complexity, some people are more complex (either negatively or positively) and thus need more complex systems to maintain sanity in their life-experience. I think it is good to try to find the core principles of magick in order to better perform magick instantaneously at Will. There is many, many theories as to why and how magick works. There is also many similarities and that is how you can tell what is garbage and what is not.
You have to also keep in mind that most belief systems answer questions such as why the universe exists, why certain things happen, they hold moralities that a person may or may not adopt. They have godforms that people can lean on when they feel hopeless/helpless. There are many psychological reasons why a person believes the way they do. There are also personal experiences that happen (e.g. a person might meet a hindu and then while in a state of altered consciousness - find that the deity that the hindu person worshiped is real).
Those who Fall will find their Heaven
and will always be adored.
In Plaudo Atri Matris!
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