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

“[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

“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

“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

“Remove guilt from mass, and control from yoga, and both can be equally therapeutic, but to bow like sheep or bend like goat, is sign of neither sanctity nor awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Dogma decreed as divine,
when superstition feels highly sacred,
Vrindavan becomes a garbage dump,
Ayodhya becomes capital of savages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Pilgrim's Regress (Sonnet 2324)

Mirage mistaken as message,
when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened,
Sinai becomes septic,
Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.

Dogma decreed as divine,
when superstition feels highly sacred,
Vrindavan becomes a garbage dump,
Ayodhya becomes capital of savages.

When another's belief is delusion,
but our belief is religion,
Mecca becomes a pilgrimage of maniacs,
Damascus becomes ulcer to civilization.

The confidence of ignorance is always
louder than the confidence of knowledge.
Truth raises more questions than answers,
whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Truth raises more questions than answers, whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You can be sacred without being superstitious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
lost sheep returns to the fold.
In Naskarian we say:
there's divinity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Bulldoze the blindness,
beam with goodness,
shatter the silence,
with ignited conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“The world is swarming with spiritual tourists, who confuse breathing exercises to be the breath of life, and bedtime stories to be divine awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“To be a fanatic one must not seek the truth, to seek the truth one must not be a fanatic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion, is the most unholy, unkind, uncivilized, unsentient, inhuman mental illness of all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know nothing about the origin of the universe, but I can tell you one thing for a fact of earth biology, it has nothing to do with the anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes, magic tricks and fairytales to quench your quest for truth, you have neither the brain, nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Fairytales provide nourishment for the mind, but only as tales of fantasy, not of truth. Myths are crucial part of the social fabric, but they must never become the backbone of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“God of The Blue Rock (Sonnet)

God of the gaps cannot
be God of the world,
and God of the world should not
be abused as god of the gaps.

As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock
in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know
nothing about the origin of the universe,
but I can tell you one thing for a fact of
earth biology, it has nothing to do with the
anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures.

If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes,
magic tricks and fairytales to quench your
quest for truth, you have neither the brain,
nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.

Fairytales provide nourishment for the mind,
but only as tales of fantasy, not of truth.
Myths are crucial part of the social fabric, but
they must never become the backbone of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“If you must be blind, be blind in tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“To salute the flag is just as animal as burning a flag, to obey the scripture blind is just as savage as burning a scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace