The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Interpretation
Blind faith can prevent critical thinking and questioning.
Richard Dawkins highlights the dangers of blind faith, suggesting that it perpetuates itself by discouraging rational thought and inquiry. This stance points to the importance of questioning beliefs, advocating for a mindset that values evidence and reasoning over unexamined faith.
In practice
In a discussion about religious beliefs, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for critical evaluation of faith.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with most religious people a sense of mystery and wonder at the universe and I want to participate in religious ritual and practices because they're something that all humans can share.
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
That's all an angel is....an idea of God.
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