How important is metaphysical thinking?

How important is it for you to decide what you believe? Everybody has an answer to this question to varying degrees, and I suspect the majority of folks would answer that it's pretty important to dredge through the options and come up with an explicit metaphysical viewpoint.

As for me, I've been reading some opponents to the concept of developing some kind of metaphysical world view, specifically, that such a world view is universally damaging. See Christopher Hitchen's God is not Great.

Now I haven't read the story in quite some time, and this is not a scholarly piece, but the concept that spending time thinking about "God" whatever that might mean will eventually render something heinous might very well be true (and also a straw man argument). But I'm just not sure that not thinking about the situation is very healthy from a social perspective either.

I mean, consider the situation from a bastardized game theory perspective. In fact this would be an excellent time to draw up a game theory matrix for this. too bad i'm so lazy. nevermind. back to work.