Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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