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

“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

“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

“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

“Lies sell more than life.
Afterlife sells more than earth.
Chakras sell more than backbone.
Holy water sells more than water.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Propaganda sells more than peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Propaganda sells more than peace.
Lust sells more than love.
Violence sells more than virtue.
Afterlife sells more than earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The original sin is not adam eating an apple, that's just bedtime story for adults, real original sin is when you separated god from human, and placed it in the sky.

God was human, until we invented religion. Organized religion is the original sin, that dissociated humanity from its own divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Good Superstition (Sonnet 3163-3164)

We all need some superstition in our life,
I say superstition because I want to be blunt,
no ambiguity, we all need some superstition,
for most part they are therapeutic,

so don't try to explain it with scientific jargon,
because that's when your superstition becomes delusion.

Life is a symposium of symbols,
all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification,
purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice,
not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience
pass a laboratory test before it is allowed
emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're
more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Symbols need neither rational evidence
nor supernatural powers to hold human meaning -
just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria,
there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Life is a symposium of symbols, all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification, purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice, not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience pass a laboratory test before it is allowed emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria, there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Off With Your Customs (Sonnet 3181 Song)

Off with your customs, off with your dogma;
off with your shackles, off with your altar;
off with your borders, off with your scripture;
off with your flags, and off with your vultures;

off with your prestige, off with your pastors;
off with dualities, off with your dollars;
off with your cryptos, off with your narcos;
off with your Uncles, off with your Hitlers;

off with your lawmen, off with your godmen;
off with your robots, off with your militants;
off with your kings, and off with your barons;
off with your courts, and off with your karens;

off with your customs, off with your dogma;
off with your costume, off with your collar;
off with your promise, off with your plunder;
off with your eden, off with your bunker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Many Reasons to Hate Naskar
(Sonnet 3186-3187)

Naskar is a textbook traitor,
with zero patriotic spirit,
he seems to care more about
the enemies than his own people.

Naskar is obviously guided by satan,
sprouting all sorts of blasphemous stuff,
like tolerance and interfaith harmony.

Naskar is an absolute fake,
he doesn't even believe in an almighty god,
yet refuses to be called an atheist.

Naskar is a typical lowlife,
who doesn't know the difference
between neuroscience and philosophy.

Naskar is a filthy desert dweller,
who doesn't even understand rhyme and meter.

So, what are you waiting for?
Grab every last of my books,
and sonnets, and verses, and sciences,
and theologies, and philosophies,
and throw it all into the fire,
if that reduces your hatred even slightly.

P.S. Why should good hatred go to waste,
at least we can get a few sonnets out of it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“A planet where faith is expensive, reason is expensive, science is expensive, medicine is expensive, food is expensive, everything is expensive, only human life is cheap, is a lot of things, but not civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Religious fundamentalists, xenophobic nationalists, and militant atheists, are all cut from the same cloth, the cloth of cantankerous dogma, sometimes they come dressed in ceremonial religious garb, sometimes in aristocratic intellectual suits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Having grey hair and wrinkles do not make a person wise, person is wise when they can confront the failures of their own tribe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If my freedom comes at the expense of another's exploitation, I don't want it. If my culture comes at the cost of another's erasure, I don't want it.

If my rationality revels in destroying people's religion, I don't want it. If my religion demands the conversion of all others, I don't want it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“You know what the favorite word of a fascist is? Freedom. You know what the favorite word of a fanatic is? Tradition.

You know what the favorite word of the superstitious is? Enlightenment. You know what the favorite word of a conspiracy theorist is? Truth”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Neither a religion of domesticated livestock, nor of hungry predators, the religion of the future is going to be centered on love, tempered by reason, powered by backbone, with zero dependency on mythology, otherwise, there is no future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Celebrate people for their existence, and credit institutions for what they can achieve, rather than celebrating institutions for their antiquity, while judging people by what they can accomplish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If my freedom hates another,
if my faith erase another,
if my flag tortures another,
if my god butchers another -

I don't want such god and culture,
I don't want such ritual murder -
every person is my people,
every culture is my culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“God is the first and final call of love, living inside the four chambers of the heart, not behind the four walls of organized religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.

What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Lift your sail, wind is afoot,
Step out of your dead habit hood.
Love is giving call,
Can't you hear at all!
When will you walk the living truth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion