how can you believe something so blindly....?

Question

and never question it?
I believe that every time I put my foot down, it will meet solid ground, but I also know that on occasion it won't!

I don't ' believe ' this question is aimed at any religion! it's aimed at those who believe blindly!

Answer 1

Its wasn't blind feeling, I felt the real tangible presence of J.C, that why I believe henceforth. You can too if you search Him earnestly & sincerely.

Answer 2

Actually the belief that every time I put my foot down, it will meet solid ground is probably a misconception too. If anything that the physicists have been telling us for the last 80 years is true this is not the case.

Even a cursory glimpse into the unified field theory will show you the the old ideas about the solid nature of matter are little more than an illusion.

Current theory see so-called solid objects, including the earth we walk on and the body we do the walking with, as being little more than ideas. Perceptual interpretations of energy that we interpret as solid objects.

This seems absurd at first, but if you actually take the time to try to understand what they are saying you quickly realize that it is far more likely to be the truth than what we have been lead to believe.

love and blessings Don

Answer 3

No one should.

Religious people need to do more than read a book and listen to someone tell them about things. They need to do soul searching, reading between the lines and making a decision on right and wrong.

Sceintifically minded need to turn over as many stones as possible, for every theory out there are alternative theories. Big Bang is one, Steady State is another and if you look hard you'll find a thrid, fourth and fifth. Now, do the same thing. Soul searching, reading between the lines and deciding what is right and wrong.

Anyone who blindly believes in the Weatherman on TV is in for a wet day if they don't take an umbrella because he or she said, we'll have a dry day tomorrow and a rouge front pulls in sometime in the morning.

I planned a trip using Yahoo maps and Yahoo driving directions, but when I talked with "locals" they gave me a shorter, faster, cheaper and better alternative that Yahoo didn't think of.

Answer 4

I like your question :)

I think believing in something (religion, love, a person, solid ground, the sun rising everyday... whatever) blindly is foolish. It is better to ask questions and to know things than to accept anything unconditionally. When you ask you can begin to understand and make up your own mind about what you want to believe.

Answer 5

That is what faith is. Believeing something without questioning. I cannot see or touch gravity but you can be certain I trust it to keep me from spinning off the planet. I cannot see love (simply manifestations of it's existence) but I believe it exists. I cannot see electrons or neutrons either but they are there none the less. I do not believe I will touch solid ground every time I put my foot down. I do not expect it to, there are too many time I have seen potholes or the edges of cliffs to know that I should watch where I place my feet.

Answer 6

I question everything, and oftentimes have I wished that I could just let things be. The life of the eternal questioner is not an easy one, and sitting back and pretending it's all simple is probably a much more straightforward way to look at the world.

I think that voluntary abstraction is probably the only way to look at the world in such a way as to render it unquestionable. However, I think that it is probably the case that everyone does this to some extent. To me, it begs the question "What are we trying to abstract away?", and trying to find the answer to this question leads you down a path that you may not return from...

Answer 7

I was blind, but now I see. I may believe blindly by the standards of the world, but my eyes are wide open spiritually, and I can see the blindness of those around whose eyes are still closed to the brilliance that shines from the face of Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

If the "something" you're referring to is religion, then my question to you is: why do you assume that people who believe in it always do so "blindly"?

Are you not aware that many people convert as adults to whatever religion they practice. This usually happens after a long (I'm talking years) process of searching, prayer, and thought.

Also, there are those of us who don't convert from the religion into which we were born -- yet sometime later in life, make a conscious (not blind) decision to practice that religion more fully. You can put me in that category.

The idea that religion-adherents are all "blind followers" is a stereotype. In fact, I think there are more people who blindly follow secular humanism than there are people who blindly follow a religion.

Answer 9

I agree, I think you're talking science here which should question everything. But bring science back far enough, and you end up with belief, and whether there is or is not a God behind it all. Both require faith. Neither can be proven except indirectly (evolutiona and ID vs. Time, for instance), but both must be included or it's not true science. These are mutually opposed to each other, infinity divided by 0, undefined and yet it must be defined. I say God exists because philosophically, there is no alternative. Truth cannot be relative, because my Truth is not your Truth. And yet there must be Truth. Therefore it must exist external to ourselves -- which means God, not magic wand-waver for science, but a re-think of the science that currently denies God's existence.

Answer 10

Which is why you should never walk down the stairs in the dark...

The idea that the stairs might not actually be there is too much some people to accept, so they simply turn of the lights and head on down.

Lord only knows what they might see if they turned the lights on and looked around....why, there might even been an elevator.

Answer 11

Faith makes sense if you support it with a logical frame of mind, and that only works if youve got a faith you can bring your head and heart into.

But some things you cannot reason with.

Practices should be sensible, but Im not obliged to answer up to the whys and hows of what God orders.

To me its like saying: lying is wrong: but why???

get it?

Some things are evident if u look closely...other things...just takes time to understand between cultures and time frames....overall...people need to have strong faith, that means both head and heart.

Peace out