Blind Faith Quotes

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."

(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”
― Sting, Nothing Like the Sun

“God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.”
― Justin Villanueva, Conversations with the Light Bearer

“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that effervesced inside of him impatiently, dry at the mouth, shaking feverishly, and holding its breath in anticipation for—not his action, but in fact—the fruits of his actions, however distant these may have been. The goal was to satiate its thirst in as few moves as possible, instilling each action with an almost implied necessity for having a motive by which it must exist, which is to say that no action was to be wasted for anything, but only for that which was rooted in some definable and clear-cut purpose...Every action had to be a step in some direction and there could be no dillydallying, for Duty bubbling in the bloodstream for too long brought with it a kind of sickness...from which it was difficult to recover. Neither could there be any reconsideration, for the values to which one has sworn were unassailable and beyond the powers of one individual to reassess. And so, Duty, once instilled, must be allowed to carry on unabated, diverting sustenance away from other aspects of one’s character—driving them to a weakened state, brow-beaten by circumstances beyond their immediate control and relegated to their own downtrodden acquiescence to the bravado of the Parasitic Superego, and, as such, cognizant of their growing superfluity.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through to its ultimate conclusion. A conclusion, which, of itself, was a bittersweet paradox—for how could doubt simply cease to exist by any stretch of the imagination? Doubt was, nonetheless—from his own perspective—the only inclusive insight into the nature of a Truth exclusive of conditions.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“What is religion without service? Bedtime story!
What is philosophy without service? Pastime!
What is psychology without service? Gossip!
What is science without service? Aristocracy!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Pretend Society (Sonnet 2982)

AI slop is nothing new,
world is full of stuff that's pretend -
churches are pretend divinity,
courts are pretend justice,
governments are pretend democracy,
military is pretend peace -

zionism is pretend promise,
maga is pretend liberty,
hindutva is pretend dharma,
buckingham is pretend nobility.

For a dictatorship to work
you need just one benevolent dictator,
but for a democracy to work
you need millions of responsible citizens -

a democracy fails when people demand democracy
while shirking the responsibilities of a democracy;
the first requirements of a civilized society
are a prejudice-free mind, hatefree heart,
and a complacency-free spine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“AI slop is nothing new,
world is full of stuff that's pretend -
churches are pretend divinity,
courts are pretend justice,
governments are pretend democracy,
military is pretend peace -

zionism is pretend promise,
maga is pretend liberty,
hindutva is pretend dharma,
buckingham is pretend nobility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Mythology as mythology is great literature, but mythology as history is fake literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Beware of fanatics bearing good news, but also beware of aristocrats bearing reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“All customs don't make culture, customs rooted in fanaticism must be rooted out, so that actual human culture can take root.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“¡Qué mundo tan extraño! (2515)

Tienes dinero, tienes respeto -
tienes principios, tienes nada;
tienes codicia, tienes poder -
tienes conciencia, tienes nada.

¡Qué mundo tan salvaje,
qué mundo tan extraño!
Di mentiras, serás santo -
di la verdad, serás diablo.

Pero no importa, lo que piensen los monos,
tu eres humano, te comportas humano.
When your life offends the cannibals,
it is the aftermath of your human glow.

It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel;
xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy.
Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome,
but Nazism, Zionism, Hindutva, Islamism,
belong in medical case history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Earth monkeys confuse terrorism for civilization, exploitation for exploration, prejudice for heritage, inequality for economy, indifference for democracy, they even set up establishments to normalize their incessant bloodlust as tradition, and punish dissenters as traitors.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Ilim al-Insan (Sonnet 3101-3102)

Truth is the letter,
I am only the postman.

One postman snuffeth,
another cometh -
no message is magnum opus,
no messenger final prophet.

Either burn me, or burn with me,
I want neither sheep nor mice.
Body born of mud dissolves in mud,
one person's sacrifice jolts a planet back to life.

Obedience doesn't civilize
a planet, sacrifice does -

Naskar's work is almost done,
I wonder who's gonna come next -
who's gonna be the Second Naskar,
and the Third, and the Fourth -

I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline,
I'm interested in who'll carry my madness,
my madness for tolerance,
my madness for oneness -

always flawed, but never rigid,
always making mistakes,
but also correcting themselves,
never without blind spots,
but no blind spot worshipped as truth -

tolerant of harmless make believe,
but never of harmful blind belief,
activist of humane reason, not elitist logic.

I wonder, who's gonna be the next postman!
I wonder, who's gonna be the next Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Truth is the letter, I am only the postman. One postman snuffeth, another cometh - no message is magnum opus, no messenger final prophet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline, I'm interested in who'll carry my madness, my madness for tolerance, my madness for oneness - always flawed, but never rigid, always making mistakes, but also correcting themselves, never without blind spots, but no blind spot worshipped as truth - tolerant of harmless make believe, but never of harmful blind belief, activist of humane reason, not elitist logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Either burn me, or burn with me, I want neither sheep nor mice. Body born of mud dissolves in mud, one person's sacrifice jolts a planet back to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Kindness is my constitution,
selflessness is divine sanity.
To be human takes no scripture,
living gospel takes humanity.

No borrowed make-believe,
no quicksand of cowardice -
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.

Not sheep, not wolf, be human -
graduate from dogma to divinity.
Take theology out of the sky and
place it in the heart of humanity.

From stars to soil to synapses,
arrangement of atoms dictates reality.
From inanimate to animate to sapient,
humanity is an affair of cosmic serendipity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs! What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“You keep your cute rhyme and meter,
your cruel equations and dead dogma,
let me go rack and ruin -
costume, custom, all be cinder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I don't want fewer believers, I want belief centered on compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When devoid of empathy rationalism is as useless as blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Organized religion thrives on domesticated cows, organized politics thrives on domesticated wolves, organized cartels don't want their flock to come alive - disciples who think, are disciples no good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience