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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Religions don't by default require blind faith, they offer "miracles" as evidence. It gets reduced down to blind faith when you challenge the validity of the miracles. Many people believe they experience "tiny miracles" all the time. Regardless of whether that is completely imagined, they believe it and therefore to them it is not blind faith.

It also seems that you are conflating faith and obedience. They are not the same thing at all. Every structured system has rules. If you break the rules that structure falls apart. When you go to school you have to listen to the teacher. If everyone ignored that it would be chaos and no one could learn. So the argument that something is bad because it requires obedience is patently absurd.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Miracles are bunk too. Just because it's rare, misunderstood, or unexplained doesn't make it a "miracle". /s/memes/comments/4cjo/i_heard_its_easier_to/

Living from a place of gratitude is definitely better for you, but being naive is not.

I'm clearly not conflating faith and obedience because because I've indicated that there was coercive brainwashing on a mass scale that lead to the social virus we call social order, in which many people certainly have their doubts, but many do indeed have blind faith in their authority - regardless if they obey all their laws or not. Further, it's not the people telling us to obey and have blind faith in the authorities and experts - it's they that tell us that, not to mention their psychopathic compulsion for secrecy for whatever reasons - from "national security" to "covert operations" to "need to know" - all subjective bullshit and obscurantism to confuse and cover their mafia activities.