What do you think the % is of people who believe blindly? say the media, belief system, what so-&-so said?

Question

Why or Why Not?

Answer 1

I think you mean follow blindly. Belief is usually something that you yourself attain. If you believe what so&so said or believe in the media or a belief system, it's your own volation. However, if you follow someone or something blindly, they(or it) lead(s) you where they(it) want you to go. Percent of people who follow blindly...probably everyone at one time or another in their life. Why? Because a person has to learn on their own how to go against the molds that society puts them into, and that is sometimes a difficult task.

Answer 2

Imo faith should not come out of turning your eyes away from what you see. So any % of people who believe in "blind faith" is probably 1% to many. If I take the word of the other without question I have basicaly just made myself the center of my own universe. A reason why you shouldnt take faith blindly is because when you do you have your own version of what was taken in. If you follow that belief you thought you got from another without trying to check it against your own feelings and the feelings of others you end up with a belief system based upon the way you took what was said and not what was really said nor what the person who said it ment.

6 billion people can read the bible word for word front to end and end up with 6 billion different thoughts and conclusions about it. Same for any other book so perhaps the best words are sometimes the words not said. In that case I should probably have deleted all I put down here and instead inserted blank lines because perhapse that might have made my point better or perhapse not who knows.
I can only hope for the best.

Answer 3

I, for one do not believe in anything that comes out on the Media, I am a person that has to look real close to anything anyone, says is true. But there are some People that believe what they see, or hear, so I would say it has to be 50% of the entire nation, that believes in what the Media publishes.

Answer 4

99.9999 if not 100%
Who has the time to prove every peice of information we rely on. we take educated theory, scientific hypothesis, and even in court, the suggestion of guilt. It is a limited blindness, but the root of that statement accepts that blindness is at best, an assumtion in most of our conclusions.
What works is used. We rarely know all of what causes it to be true in total, so the rest is take on faith, so to speak.
Or as Socrates said, " I claim to know nothing.'
The next question should follow, "how often do you believe a thing blindly?"

Answer 5

I believe that people dont want to take a chance to get to know and understand things by themselves they accept anything because they dont want to try to venture off by themselves. This reminds me of the Allegory of the Cave by Plato. The prisioners were left in a cave their entire lives never knowing the outside world only the shadows on the wall. They would name the shadows. But one ventured out of the cave slowly adjusting to the outside world. If human beings would go out in the world and discover truth in whatever it is they need to search such as media religion or philosophy then they will realize the truth for themselves.

God Bless :P

Answer 6

Bush is a good marker for this. Probably worst cases are about the same number that still support George Bush, 25% or so, but probably close to half some Stepford blood in them when it comes to accepting things in the news, otherwise GB would have never been elected in the first place.

Answer 7

Speaking about Islam only. Every person is obligated to know the proof for the existence of God. If they do not know it and they follow blindly, they are Muslims but are sinful.

Answer 8

I believe in the U.S., the number of who really believes in about 13 percent. I am referring to the entire populous.

Many believe with their lips, but their hearts are far from God.


As for media, the numbers would be much less. I would say about 4 person of those associated with media are true believers.




It is easy to say one believes in God, but it is difficult to walk the path of righteousness. None of us are perfect and we will all make mistakes. Yet, because of corruption of the faith, many have a multiple choice when it comes to what they want to believe. And most religions are doctrines of men designed to appeal to the flesh, but not for the spirit.

We are to follow God and be an acceptable offering unto the Lord. This can only be done by faith in his Son. We must become less of ourselves and let God's Son, who is without sin, live his sinless life through us. This is only done by faith.

The more my cup of self will becomes empty, the more Christ fills it. Trust in God's Son. He loves us. He died for us so we don't have to die.

Answer 9

Almost everybody.

True skeptics, who reserve their buy-in until they've checked out the information, are quite rare. I know people who are skeptics religion-wise and yet hear one 20-second sound bite on National Public Radio, Fox News, or CNN and accept it as the entire truth.

Answer 10

I think there's a relatively small number of genuine sheep, but I think most people believe too much of what they hear generally, and when it comes to religion, they've been trained from childhood to accept it without question.