What is Blind Faith?

Answer 1

All faith is blind. If it weren't blind, you'd call it "knowledge."

Answer 2

Believing something without any philosophical or intuitive understanding. Acceptance without question, empathy, reflection, or logical reason for the concept being adopted. Blind faith is lemming mentality: For instance; "If others are walking off a clif, so shall I", rather than "why should I walk off the cliff like the others?".

Blind faith is characterized by the logic that "I can not know everything, therefore I should not try to understand, rather just believe based upon what I am told".

This is flawed logic because remaining glued to a false idea without questioning the idea means that you become a victim of false humility. Those who know the vastness of human ignorance should continue to question through humility, rather than accept the thoughts of others.

Blind faith is NOT as some believe it, as belief without scientific experimental proof. In fact many trust in scientific experimenters with such blind faith that they do not consider the reliability or rigoressness of a scientific experiment; prefering just to believe it because of the label science. The classic example is that people believed carbon dating before scientists even realized that one needs to have local calibration curves for 14C levels in order to count for that variation. Therefore many were misled by scientists oversight.

Answer 3

Blind Faith...

Is a double edged sword...

Blind faith can be bad. You blindly believe in something that someone tells you, or you blindly follow a friend and end up screwed over. You blindly follow your religion and you end up hurt, lost...so many other things...

Blind faith can be good. You chose to follow God with all of your heart, mind, body, and soul...forsaking all others for a life lived in Christ. You understand that Faith is beyond explanation so you simply believe and live in that belief....

It is all a matter of how you take it...and how much you are willing to do in that "Blind Faith" before you stop and reevaluate who you are and where you stand.

Answer 4

Blind faith is redundant, because faith itself is blind if we are talking about faith in God. When using the term blind to describe something, it means we are going into it with no way of knowing if what we are doing is going to have the outcome we desire. I'm thinking of playing the card game Spades.. if you make a blind bid, you are bidding BEFORE the cards are dealt. So you have no idea if you'll be able to make your bid or not, but you're HOPING you will.

Answer 5

Definition: belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination

That's according to this source:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Blind%20Faith

The charge is typically sent into the direction by Atheists to Christians. While I find the opposite is true.

The Christian understands where their faith is sent, or to whom it is sent, but the Atheists are in denial about themesleves having faith. Nether do they have any scientific data concerning the issue. Yet they call themselves Atheists, even though they have no data, no understanding, and no perception.

The Atheists often practice Blind Faith daily. Especially when they are here telling everyone about it. They are putting their beliefs into action, which is one definition of faith. The more confident they are about it, the stronger faith they practice in something they do not really understand.

It is so silly of them.

Answer 6

blind faith can be summed up in this quote:

"When you come to the edge of all the light you have known, and are about to step out into darkness, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen; There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.

-Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Believing what you cannot see takes courage, bravery, and faith cause theres always that chance you are wrong....

Answer 7

It usually means believing just because.

But faith does not have to be blind.

Answer 8

Believing without seeing,having faith in.

Answer 9

believing in something unseen. As Christians, no one should expect to have blind faith. Just look at creation all around you, the evidence is clear...unless you don't want to see

Answer 10

That faith is blind which doesn't allow you to question about it's basic principals,

you just have to get faith , without "how's" and "why's",

But any such faith is against human nature.

Answer 11

Having faith without looking into all other posibilities and not fully understanding what you're having faith in