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Willful irresponsibility justified under the guise of faith.
Faith is not a virtue but a vulnerable blindspot. We all have some things we just accept as fact, but we at least should not elevate that to a virtue. Yet religion does exactly that.
I have no time for the yammering of the faithfools.
They're yammering, alright. But they are also spreading Covid-19. It is not what they say, but what they do that concerns me.
Faith per se ain't the problem, now blind faith is a different story, and I ain't talking about the Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech supergroup.
Just so I understand your meaning, how do you distinguish some faith as blind, as opposed to other faith? Is that faith "despite" contradictory evidence?
@MikeInBatonRouge i have faith that your own curiosity will eventually prompt you to research the answer somewhere rather than asking someone else to solve your own doubts.
@Mofo1953 that was not a criticism of your statement, but a request for clarification of your intended specific meaning. I can't much research your intent elsewhere. To me, all faith is blind, so I suspected you mean some particular distinction.
But whatever.
@MikeInBatonRouge you said it, to you. Not to a dictionary for example.
In my honest opinion, the Religous would NOT know virtue/s even if it got up and bit them on their arse.
That feels like painting with a broad brush. My experience is that most religious , as misguided as they are, know and value virtues. Unfortunately, it is a vocal minority and leadership that I hold contemptible.....