Why Religious "Faith" Is Blind

 

re: "Faith was never supposed to be "blind." Whatever someone believes—whether it be Christianity, Atheism, or something else—it should be based on evidence and logic." --- As a Christian, you're not allowed to "see" any facets of reality, nor see value in anything which can't be harmonized with your own religious obligations and dependencies. To even seriously consider any such thing as potentially real, or as potential worthy of more respect than your religion allows for, ... would = *questioning, * doubting, and * potentially challenging: the * "authority", and * the factuality, and * the value, of a religious narrative which you have a.) have taken a personal oath of loyalty to and b.) allowed to become your very identity; and thus the foundation of your worth. -- As an extra fail-safe, to ensure you won't even risk it, you exist under the threats of *significant social consequences and *signficant threats about what "Father" would DO to you; if ever you "see" sufficiently good reasons to "lose (that) faith". These are what make your religion "unfalsifiable". It's the same things that make Islam and other religions also unfalsifiable. This is why Hebrews 11:1 defines "faith" as being based on "things unseen" and merely "hoped" for. It's a "faith" that validates itself; rather than needing to "see" objective evidence (like being allowed to having "visiting hours" or a guided tour, or even just a silent WINDOW; into Heaven). Hell, a "God" could at least replay a high-rez video in the night's sky, every year at the same day-and-time Jesus "resurrected". We weren't invented to the live event. We don't even get "home movie" reruns. We just get rumors; started by men we never met, ... spread and made-popular in a mostly illiterate and deeply superstitious culture, ... many decades before anyone wrote any of it down, and centuries before anyone decided to make a "Bible" out of it. That's why the best "evidence" is all so speculative, spurious, and cobbled together. This is why the phrase "take it on faith" specifically means: instead of demanding a full measure of objectively substantiating physical and logical evidence.