Why isn't truth important to believers?

Because if it were true then they would not need to believe, because then they would have knowledge!!!

Really when you sit down in a chair do you first conduct weight experiments to determine whether or not the chair can support you? Or do you accept on faith that the hair will hold you up? Unless you just have a zany desire to tumble over, you have to have faith that the chair can support your weight? So fess up to your own dishonesty?

While we're on the subject of pretending to know what you don't know, as a non-believer your nonbelief is equally dishonest, unless you are an agnostic. Is an atheist dishonest for pretending to know what is unknowable? That nowhere is there any such thing as a god. Tho have assurance of that position, one must have universal knowledge, which would in effect make you God. I suspect that's what atheism is all about--the exaltation of self. It is falling for the first lie: You shall surely be god.

Faith can be a choice to take a stance regarding questions we can't get answers to. Arguably, this is probably the only defensible use of faith, because there's no point in having faith in something that can be verified or refuted. But some questions don't have answers that are achievable through evidence. In these cases, sometimes a faith based answer can be more useful to an individual than uncertainty. It doesn't make the belief true or untrue, but utility is sometimes more of a concern than a pure interest in truth.

Because faith is fun and interesting. Truth takes the imagination and fun out of things. Believing in unicorns and pots of gold makes life much more interesting. I don't want to spend my life resorting to science as the answer for everything. I cried when someone told me that the northern lights werent magic but rather something to do with the earths magnetic field.

It's not just religion either. A lot of them are quick to believe in some amazing conspiracy theories as well. It makes me wish I had taken psychology in college - people are fascinating creatures.

I agree. People believe in things like that because they either want to not feel alone or want an after life.

Oh blah blah.

What's truth for one person may not be truth for another. That's just how it is. You like cold, hard logic, and they like wishful thinking. It's two different mindsets. Have some empathy man!

nobody really knows anything these days besides who won last years super bowl dammit thats the only thing I know too! Well at least I admit it

If it was pretence, you'd be right, but it's not.

The bible explains what faith is.

The truth is exactly what believers follow.

You can google 'what is faith'.

because creationists were taught from the childhood to just believe what they only want to believe and deny anything else they don't like

I figure the fundamentalist proselytizer's motto is "If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."