Faith vs Blind Faith

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html

I've just watched the TED video given by Richard Dawkin where he urges atheists to be more out spoken about their beliefs. His delivery is humourous but thought provoking and powerful.

The talk is recorded in 2006, and released in 2007 and I've watch it in 2010 - It's 2 years late. But I assure you that the content is still insightful. The perspective that he puts forward is one that every human being must embrace to become a world citizen. I would urge anyone who have not watch it to

Richard Dawkin is a biologist who is one of the most out-spoken atheist around. To that cause, he have founded a organisation call The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, whose purpose

One of the things that he feels strongly about is that religious growth is detrimental to science advancement. I feel pretty much the same as well.

Generally, faith is good. Confidence can be thought of as having faith in one's ability. Having faith in a person, necessary means that one believe that the person will is able to get the job done. Having faith in life means having confidence in our ability to reach our goal.

Thus, Faith translates into action. And the inverse is also true - no faith (no confidence) in oneself translate to inaction.

Where does Faith come from? From knowledge and skills. It come from doing things.

Blind faith is different. It doesn't come from knowledge and skills. It doesn't come from doing things. It comes from the herd mentality - that we follow what the others are doing blindly. This is not to say that it is absolutely dangerous. It really depends on where is the herd going. However, it represents a lack of thinking, a lack of awareness, a lack of plan. and that is dangerous in the long run.

Would you live a life where the thinking is done by another person? That is effectively what blind faith is about. So have faith, but not blind faith.