Transcending the Dilemma

Everyone has faith. Not necessarily recognized as such,
but we all have it. We have faith when we drive that
other drivers won't try to crash into us; faith that each
step we take will land on solid surface and not turn into
oatmeal and so on. Faith based on knowledge and experience.

Blind faith is different. It's faith for faith's sake.
It often requires acceptance of life changing values
based on what someone else said is true. Blind faith
needs no authenticity or verification.

This type of unwavering acceptance affects billions of
people across continents. Total belief and absorption
into a faith can be responsible for how lives are lived
from birth to death, owing to rules provided by
organizations that control and manipulate the faithful.

Such believers are often at odds with other blind faithful
who have a similar total acceptance but of a different
dogma. Throughout human history until the present day,
multitudes have been slaughtered in defending or expanding
a particular belief. Blind faithful are always right,
and those other Blind Faithful are always wrong. The
role for the non-believer, according to each side, is to
convert to the true path or be eliminated or at the very
least be tolerated and viewed as a threat.

Experiments with rats have shown that test subjects,
manipulated to respond to controlled stimuli, will
continually attack subjects from a different group until
only members of their own group survive. The human
equivalent of the lethal rat stimulus might be blind faith.
It certainly has too often led to the same result with people.
An historical view of this human maze seems to indicate
the maze has no exit.
But of course it does.