Do you believe in "blind faith"?

I'm very much like you in my beliefs ... or lack of, I suppose. And actually, it's funny how you should word it how you did, because I've used pretty much these exact lines before. An article I wrote for an atheist alliance was topped with a flashing banner I'd made, that said, "Have faith in yourself, your family, your friends. Believe in compassion, kindness and humanity. Run from religion." In general, I support individual beliefs ... until someone tries to use them to infringe on my rights. That's a different story altogether, lol. But I'm normally very tolerant of individual beliefs, and I encourage people to have faith ... but blind faith is ignorance defined. I can't even comprehend believing in something on blind faith alone. I believe in my family, I have faith in my friends, but I see evidence that leads me to believe they're both deserving of this belief and this faith. I believe the world is round, because science has proven it is. I have faith that I'm breathing in oxygen, because science has shown me it's true. I have faith that we're still evolving, because science has shown me evolution is fact. (Before anyone argues this, learn the difference between theory and 'scientific' theory, please) I can no sooner have blind faith in any God than a Christian can have blind faith that there's a purple elf sitting next to me. I could tell them there is one, I could describe him, I could write stories about him, and they'd probably all laugh at me. Yet somewhere along the line, someone told them there was a God, someone wrote stories about him, and that's their proof. P.S. Children aren't proof there's a God, children are proof that we're animals with a working reproductive system.

If you do not believe in God, then what do you have faith in? Everything here is temporary and imperfect. Only God is totally perfect and holy. Without the Lord, we have no hope. What a miserable life it would be without hope in the Lord! God bless.