I say its blind because you cant get most people out of the churches.
No matter how you talk about how the church enforced beleif during centuries under penalty of death, that they put people like Giordano Bruno on a stake and burned them for claiming that stars in the sky at night were suns just like our own. No matter how much you talk to them about how transparently manipulative church doctrines were if you go back just a little in time.
If it wasnt blind faith, they would start asking themselves question because the church hasnt changed much, it just adjusted its speech a bit. The church is still trying to push for horrific things like going to Africa and saying condoms are bad when the continent is caught in an AIDS epidemic.
To me the fact that they are blind relates more to the fact that they dont really see how christian faith is abused alot of the times, then theyre beleif that the bible is the voice of god. Even though theres plenty of horrific shit in the bible as well.
Faith in a god disturbs me less than faith in the christian church, because at least with the faith in god there is some room to think still.
Something in me tells me that the reason why christianity got so strong historically is because its beleifs were shoved down peoples throats at the end of a sword and that alone got me suspicious, even as a kid.
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