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

“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

“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

“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

“You cannot have faith, and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science, and fail at service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I believe in the right to belief, but not as excuse for discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Castrated by ritual the mind has evaporated long enough, Invigorate the mind now, let the rituals evaporate instead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Journey of civilization begins with one person rejecting an outdated tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Divinity of the past was based in sky-fiction, divinity of the present must be rooted in life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Nobody was Christlike, that's why you have Christianity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why can't you be spiritual without being superstitious, why can't you be religious without being a fundamentalist - the day you could, that's the beginning of civilized spirituality and human religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Jashn-e Inquilab, Sonnet 2600
(Revolution Festivities)

When there is order, but no justice,
when there is faith, but no goodness,
when there is brain, but no benevolence,
when there is custom, but no consciousness -

when machines behave like people,
but people behave like vegetable,
when governments shelter more
lunatics than lunatic asylums -

when ICE age looms early,
terrorizing life and liberty,
when disparity is packaged as prosperity,
and cowardice is the standard of society -

let the festivities of revolution commence,
breaking the fast of convenient apathy -
I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness,
I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Water breaks and body is born,
prejudice breaks and being is born.
Umbilical is severed, baby joins the world;
dogma is severed, person joins the civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I too am a believer,
a believer in life over afterlife,
a believer in choice over creed.
I too am a creationist -
I am the creation, and the creator is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,
when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred -
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only holy nation is the one without hatred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The world was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear -
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.

So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality -
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Naskar Paradox
(Sonnet that shouldn't exist, 2588-2592)

I am the rip in time,
that heals the fractures of space.
I am the variable of love,
that nullifies the constants of hate.

To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

Sciences and theologies are my playthings,
I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.
If apes pollute the pulse of life with dogma,
it is testament of an underdeveloped nature.

No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.

The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.

I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries -
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.

Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe starcharts,
shake off the spell of hollow algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.

You hunger for pride,
I hunger for life.
You hunger for tall walls,
I hunger for tall humans.

You hunger for future,
I hunger for the present.
Being is belonging,
attachment is advancement.

Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.

I am not old, I am not young,
I'm possibilities unsung.
I am paradox made flesh,
heartbeat born of cosmic hum.

I'm not in sonnets or equations, yet all in me,
silly mortal attempts to pen the infinity.
You're still searching for unified theories,
I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“If apes pollute the pulse of life with dogma, it is testament of an underdeveloped nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Never ask questions with conditions attached, truth doesn't come with conditions applied, conditions don't come with truth applied.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I place neither faith nor facts above the human, both must elevate human condition, or else both are equally redundant. History is full of people who were correct and cruel, history is full of people who were religious and animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Sonnet 2713

Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility,
every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity,
every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury,
and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.

Every ape confuses superstition with spirituality,
every ape confuses conspiracy with curiosity,
every ape confuses fear with reverence,
every ape confuses exclusivity with supremacy.

Every ape thinks their flag is the flag of god,
every ape thinks their land is the land of god,
every ape thinks their lingo is the lingo of god,
every ape thinks their text is the text of god.

Takes a human to feel empty without others,
takes a human to feel incomplete when alone.
Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness,
you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace