Faith or Blind Faith

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In the context of religion, what's the difference between Faith and Blind Faith, and which is better?

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@rosborne979,

Ros, to me, simple faith is the belief in things unseen; blind faith, on the other hand, is that which is forced upon an individual through church dogma, etc.

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@rosborne979,

faith is for me what you believe either religion or politics or horoscope
Blind faith is when you uncritically believe in something and think it is the truth.
Blind faith is not good. It is better to be sceptical and a bit critical to a preacher whatever it is about religion or politics. Blind faith makes you intolerant to other
ideas.

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@rosborne979,

Agreeing here with Letty that faith is an acceptance that we don't have to understand everything to acknowledge it's existence. Blind faith is a non-questioning adherence to a prescribed dogma as Truth.

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So it sounds like you're all saying that "faith" by itself has a little bit of skepticism built into it which differentiates it from blind-faith.

Faith to me seems to be more of an all or nothing type of deal; either you have faith or you don't. But you all seem to be treating it more like a bias than an absolute.

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@rosborne979,

As usual, Ros, a poet says it far better than I could:

WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND ?
BY: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling

The wind is passing thro'

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads

The wind is passing by.

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Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.

But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.

Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.

-- Blind Faith, 1969

(Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood, Rich Grech)

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@Letty,

I don't get it.

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@Setanta,

I really don't get it.

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@rosborne979,

Well, Ros, as I noted earlier, and as the poet says, simple faith is a belief in things unseen, i.e. the wind.

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@rosborne979,

It was just free association, Ros . . . so, what? . . . you're opposed to freedom? . . . i might have known . . . you leftist commie evolutionist . . .

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@Setanta,

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I always free associate with songs, Man . . . The Girl gives me some strange looks a lotta times . . . she'll ask me a question, i'll "I dunno" and then i'll start singin'

Don't know much about history
Don't much trigonometry
Don't know much about science books
Don't know much about the French i took . . .

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@Setanta,

but...but....you do know Confused

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@Letty,

But so is blind faith, right?

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@Setanta,

My head is spinning...

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@rosborne979,

Ros, go back and look at my first post, honey. There is a difference between simple faith and blind faith.

In the interim, here's a song for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9sLkyhhlE

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@Letty,

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Ros, to me, simple faith is the belief in things unseen; blind faith, on the other hand, is that which is forced upon an individual through church dogma, etc.

Hi Letty,

Ok, so both things may be "unseen", but one of them (blind faith) is forced on you, and the other (simple faith) is chosen. So the difference is between being forced, or chosen. Is that what you mean?

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@rosborne979,

ros, that simple faith of which I spoke is not exactly "chosen", it is a product of cognitive insight. At least it was/is for me.

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@Letty,

They are both the same. "Blind" is added for emphasis. Usually as an insult.

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