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I used the word "belief" in exactly the same sense that you wrote it.
Someone who has never seen a rutabaga will rely on documentary evidence generally compiled by someone that they do not know but whom they have been told is reliable in order to decide whether they believe that rutabagas exist.
Someone who has never seen a god will rely on documentary evidence generally compiled by someone that they do not know but whom they have been told is reliable in order to decide whether they believe that gods exist.
Those two sentences, of course, have absolutely nothing whatsoever in common.
See above.
No, you didn't. And you pretend that rutabagas and gods are both in the same category as things which can only be believed in. Rutabagas can be observed, gods cannot. That is why gods can only be a belief claim, and never a knowledge claim.