People want answers, not truths. That's why there are so many priests and politicians, but philosophy is neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia, where it debates the same meaningless points for breadcrumbs.

Example; Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

While the religious and political function is largely sociological, to instill respect for that top down, father figure lawgiver, as a symbol of authority, the simple fact philosophy has overlooked the logical and practical implications of conflating the absolute with the ideal, for millennia, doesn't really say much for human rationality. So we all run around chasing our ideals, from heaven to large piles of cash, as if they are beyond question, because there is no history of debating the serious differences between an ideal and the premise of the absolute. That's why questioning beliefs is hard. Blame it on our fairly primitive powers of reason.