who is ignorant?/ A blind follower of a book/prophet...or an atheist?

Question

is it not better to reject...than to follow blindly?

Nooo martino.. i AM not an atheist...dont act over-smart

Answer 1

They are both ignorant, although the atheist is in a better situation.

The non-believer will one day see the light and realise he/she was wrong, while the fanatic thinks he/she has already seen the light and deliberately closes his/her eyes.

Answer 2

It will be generalising too much.

Following blindly often means ignoring one's own sence of right or wrong and do things because leader said so. Not exactly ignorant. Ignorant one might be unaware that anything else exist in the first place.

But that can as well apply to atheists.

There are plenty of atheists , who are so, not because they have learnt everything about religion and rejected it , but because they never really learnt what it was about. And think its fashionable. And follow it blindly in similer way. And thats the truth , at least in Indian scenario. And I guess rest of world is not that different either. Probably those atheist who turned religious afterwards and give believers chance to claim victory(??) fall in this category.

Answer 3

Everyone is ignorant. Human ignorance is inescapable. An atheist who rejects the existence of God is in no better position than a theist who accepts God's existence. Both views are fundamentally reducible to faith. On the theist's side its faith in God, on the atheists side its faith in logic or reason.

Religion and science are just two different ways to try and fill the gap of human ignorance. You can't really KNOW why anything happens, and that can be terrifying. So you develop a belief system to bring order into an otherwise seemingly chaotic world. Either everything is God's will or everything is the result of the action and reaction of physical forces. The majority of people chose to believe, by faith, that the chaotic world is either ordered by a supreme being, or by physical law.

Even an atheist who accepts chaos and rejects science is still holding his views on faith. The knowledge of the existence of God is not attainable, so God's non existence is held in faith just like a theist's view is.

The wisest man claims to know nothing. At least he/she is not ignorant or terrified of his own ignorance. Knowing that nothing can be known, such a person is free to experience and enjoy the mystery that is life.

Answer 4

Well .. obviously, American is a very diverse country and therefore is filled with different ideas and beliefs. But, in my opinion, the more ignorant one of the two is the blind follower. Why believe but only give 50% of yourself. The atheist, on the other hand, has made a decision and stuck with that. It's kind of an unfair question to begin with tho, because we don't know how the atheist lives without God. What if he/she doesn't give 100% of him/herself to his beliefs, either? Either way, they could both be ignorant.

Answer 5

Neither. If you are a good person, you are OK in Gods Book, if he/she keeps a book. The question about god existing is something you contemplate sitting on your rear end around a camp fire at night because it does not matter what you believe, life has a faith about it at the core.
We define this faith in a little different fashions, but faith is really about finding some comfort with the life/death struggle and our perceptions of death as a fearful thing.
Hopefully, when we get a little older and wiser, we understand that many truths are not necessarily easy to perceive with the senses.
Faith does not directly have a smell or form even. Faith is knowing something without evidence I myself think of Faith as a form of knowing. A form of knowing is limited but conclusive enough to give one some sense of knowing. Knowledge is what we seek, so we can prepare ourselves or find the focal point or place of perspective from which we need to stand to see this phenomena when it comes to life and death.
Your question is good, who is ignorant, but the answer is everyone!

Answer 6

Ignorance simply means lack of knowledge. Knowledge is a familiarity with the facts, gleaned through experience, education or observation. Therefore, an "ignorant" person is one who is unfamiliar with such. By this definition, both a blind follower and an atheist can be ignorant.

Hannah

Answer 7

NO, following blindly is better than attempting to lead blindly. When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Answer 8

"ignorant" is such a strong word...
& have a variety of defintions & variations

most Christians follow the Bible
most Atheists follow books written by rational thinkers before them.

Christians reject the authority of other books
Atheists reject the authority of the Bible

Ignorant is the person who
reject the Bible before he has read (not browsed) through it
reject books/theories before he had the chance to study them

Ignorant is the person who have never read through a single childrens, history, philosophy, arts, science book....

Answer 9

I wish people would quit mis-using the word ignorant?
Ignorant means that you don't know something, and that you were never taught something, so you know nothing about that thing. From the dictionary: knowing little or nothing, without knowledge.

Stupid means you know something to be true but you refuse to accept it. Or you know something to be harmful but you do it anyway.

By the way, just what do you have against blind people?
And, so....just what is it that these atheists know that blind followers don't?

Answer 10

I don't look at a belief or disbelief in God or a prophet to be the only correlations to ignorance. I look at ignorance as the absence of truth. Faith of any sort can aid in the ability to see without judgment. This ability to see without judgment naturally leads one away from ignorance. There are many different vehicles for faith, some without belief.