Both Hegel and Kierkegaard made that point about Christianity. It is the religion that requires faith more than any other, because it’s fundamental belief literally makes no sense. How can God, who exists beyond all space and time, come down and live on earth for a specific period of time? This is not just astonishing, it is self-contradictory.

One of the reasons I left Christianity and became a Buddhist is that Buddhism does not require this kind of faith. The most important truths of Buddhism can be tested in the smithy of experience. You do the practices, and they work, at least some degree. You do have to have faith that they do lead to something which is called enlightenment. But I’m not necessarily sure I believe that, and I don’t have to believe it as long as I am getting some benefit from the practices. I also have placed faith in the belief that everyone, even Hitler and Donald Trump, possess Buddha nature, that in principle everyone can become enlightened. In many people, that Buddha nature is so deeply buried that is impossible to see. For that reason, I can’t be sure that it is actually there. But I choose to believe that it is, because it makes me treat everyone more humanely. That’s my personal Pascal’s wager, and it is based on faith.