Everyone has a blind faith in something, regardless of what they may say.
Some have blind faith in their religion/spirituality. Some have blind faith in Metaphysics. Some have blind faith in Science.
All can be disavowed and argued by those of differing faiths.
Science is almost daily proven wrong in one way or another.... yet, those who blindly follow Science will say there is the law of averages and it was an anomaly and work to prove how it happened. People of Religion will look to see this as "an act of God", and whatnot. It all boils down to belief.
The simple part is the question: Why not allow people to have their beliefs/faith and let it go?
The answer is the hard part: People want their faith to be the one proven right so they can better come to terms with their faith.
People secure in their faith, from my own experience and speaking personally, don't care what your faith is, just don't shove yours down my throat. It's respect. I don't feel a need to justify my beliefs, they just are, they have come from 30+ years of searching, learning and finding what I believe works best for me and my life. I'm still open and learning but my faith is pretty much unshakable.
The biggest problem is getting one to accept the other's faith and trying to understand each other without trying to prove the other wrong or feel superior. No one's faith is more important than another's outside that person.
My beliefs/faith is not going to matter to 99.9% of the people I meet, because they truly aren't going to care. What they care about is what kind of person I am, how I treat them and so on. The only ones that seem to care are those who may want to share and learn from each other and we are able to work together and learn from each other, and those that want to "prove" my faith wrong so they can build their ego and feel better about theirs, and they don't care to learn, share or help anyone but themselves.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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