What exactly is blind faith?

Question

And how can you truly have it? Does it mean you can't think for yourself?

Answer 1

It's like being a European about 400 years ago.
You sit in a cathedral that you had to help build and pay for, and light candles you had to buy, and listen to sermons in a language you don't know, and you're still convinced the entire time that you're doing just what you should do, and feel guilty that you somehow aren't living up to your end of the bargan.

That's blind faith.

Answer 2

Blind Faith was a very good rock and roll band in the early 1970s, as I recall. Possibly late 1960s.

And why would you want the non-capitalized version? It does indeed mean you cannot think for yourself, at least in the interpretation of religious symbols and stories.

Answer 3

It doesn't mean you can't think for yourself...Blind faith is believing that good things will happen, by having faith in a higher power, whom you cannot see with the human eye!

Answer 4

fake faith is a self assurance in keeping with something synthetic or deceptive (as an occasion, believing the Shroud of Turin to have belonged to Jesus). Blind faith is faith wherein the end result isn't typical (occasion: sky diving: you have faith the parachute will open, a blind faith for the reason which you do no longer understand for particular.)

Answer 5

Blind faith is believing in something to the point that even irrefutable proof could not convince you otherwise.

For example, if you had faith that you could fly if you fell from a cliff, I could push you off a cliff yo prove otherwise, and despite the lack of flight you still belived you could fly even as you splattered on the sharp and jagged rock formations below.

Answer 6

Have some pearls.... just don't make me a fool and bury them in the mud.

Hebrews 11

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.....

Answer 7

well, blind faith is a pleonasm... without the "blind" before "faith" it means the same thing. Faith is believing in something without proof of it's existence, you just feel it's there, you know it's there, you just can't prove it.

Answer 8

Blind faith is following a person who has no direct experience of whatever he preaches.

Faith only in God can never be blind.

Faith dawns with grace of God.

Ur own self and God is same.

Answer 9

Faith is the belief in something in the face of no proof or evidence to the contrary of the belief.

ergo:
All faith is blind.

Blessed be

Answer 10

Old More "Native Than We Are" American Indian word meaning, "Lousy Thinker."