These things go sideways pretty quickly. From my perspective Religion is not faith, faith is not something you can force on another , if you are feeling pressured from it , you either are not open at the time or the messanger is false Nothing explains human consciousness , our ability to examine ourselves . So how did thought begin? It is a fair question
Faith as defined as a belief held without the support of evidence is faith regardless of anyone's perspective.
Thought, as the evidence tells us, is an electrochemical activity of a brain, which can be altered chemically and with the application of current to brain regions....producing fear, love, anxiety, involuntary movements, etc, (Delgado, et al).