@kashi
I can agree that faith can be a salve as much as it can be a drug. I prefer to think of myself in a style of a scientist honestly, and scientific methodology is really only concerned with what can be explicitly and demonstrably disproved; god is indeed something that cannot be disproved. Before I settled on a career in programming, I wanted to research the effects of spiritual belief on a person's psychology, so the distinction is important to me.

I'm glad I got to be a part of a new word for you!