A "belief" is a strong conviction in an idea absent proof.
"Proof", the essence of proof is repeatability. When humans can measure an idea for how likely it is to repeat itself, to re-occur next time, that is no longer a "belief" idea. It is a "Knowledge" idea.
The only being that have knowledge ideas are humans. That is why we got wheels. If you could "instinct" a wheel, elephants would have wheels.
About 4000 years ago, the Sumerians learned how to count. Immediately we got a wheel. Now we don't gotta walk no more.
The maths repeat themselves. Nothing else does that. Not lawyer words, not prayer words, not humming or deep breathing. Just the maths.
So, using the maths, and only the maths, humans and only humans so far, can point the maths at an idea. We can measure if the idea repeats itself. If it does, you can make circle system, a flight system, a political system or a virus system.
If the idea does not repeat, it falls into what Aristotle called the exclusionary middle, in his third law of logic.
If something isn't measurable, it doesn't exist.
Belief Knowldge
Static Dynamic
Proprietary Universal
Not Measurable Measurable
Not Repeatable Repeatable
Belief is the opposite of knowledge in every way ideas can be oppsitte. Now look at belief political systems compared to discrete ones.
Christian American
Nationalism Republic
My Race All Races
My Religion All Religions
My Language All Languages
My Gun All Guns
My Mask All Masks
My Books All Books
Singular Plural
Immoral Moral
Those describe two different countries. Nationalism the other a Republic. One has book bans the other has freedom.
Book bans is freedom to speech, not freedom of speech
Abortion bans is freedom to religion, not freedom of religion
FL for example has the safest police in America. He protected the police from the people, and the people from nothing. Look at the health and safety index of his reign.
Desantis is an actual NAZI: https://youtu.be/ygklK_xn1vY
That's Nationalism, a singular system. America was supposed to be a republic.
No one seems to know what the words mean, no one seems to know how to count.
