Why is eliminating faith the answer?

Question

I don't think faith has ever been to blame for any war or tragedy. I think stupidity is always to blame. Blind faith, insists that You are too stupid to follow your own reason. So by definition, to accept something blindly, is to accept that your reasoning capabilities are worthless. Now, if you really are that stupid, then faith is perfect for you. It's best not to rely on yourself, and instead to hope that someone else is looking out for you. In such a case, all you can do is have faith, and it's not your fault. Alot of religions would have you believe, that no human can have a reasonable thought on their own. They put humans down as being no more intelligent than beasts, and then try to blame them for behaving sinfully. Faith in violence, is stupid. Faith in kindness, when no other path is reasonably clear.. to me is a good thing. When you don't know the right path from the wrong path.. having faith in a reasonable concept to guide you, to me at least, is a very good thing..

Answer 1

Faith is believing in something that you have no rational reason to believe. The faith of the 9/11 hijackers was extremely strong. They were highly intelligent, and needed to be to pull it off. You've decided that faith that is blind is stupid, but you've done nothing to differentiate the two. Your values are that faith in kindness is reasonable, but that indicates nothing more than good manners and an internal moral compass guides you away from committing irrational violence. There is no need for faith in god to reach such conclusions. And faith in a deity actually can lead to horrid, heinous acts with no remorse and a sense of self-righteous justification.

Answer 2

Its not. Learning to keep your faith to yourself is the answer.

Answer 3

Eliminating faith isn't THE answer, it would just help a lot!

Answer 4

history and current events say a different story