One of the criticisms by atheists of religious believers is the idea of blind faith. Of an unthinking attachement to religion. They love the portmanteau “Sheeple” to describe religious believers, a word I hate whole-heartily.
I guess they have a point and if you look at the world of religion that is why you find no disagreements in the religious sphere. No heresies throughout history, no dissenters, everybody just tows the line and follows along doing no thinking at all. This also explains why there is only one world religion. Amazing how all theology books just line up together. We just keep going on non-thinking together and never questioning anything!
Life is so much easier as a believer than when I was an atheist. I have hardly missed giving up thinking.
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Interesting. I’m much more accustomed to seeing (and using) “sheeple” to refer to those with blind faith in (or apathy with respect to) statism.
Maybe we should just call them Goatles?
I want to be one of the sheeple. I certainly don’t want to be one of the goatple… Goaple? Rample? Whatever they’re called.
Incidentally, in my experience “sheeple” is used by adherents of conspiracy theories to describe people who don’t believe the theory, because apparently that means we’re mindlessly following whatever the mainstream media and/or government tells us.
Too often atheists and thier ilk point at aberrations such as the Jonestown massacre as an example of where “blind faith” leads.
I think the phrase “Blind Faith” is funny in an of itself. Athiests claim the world began from nothing, totally by itself. Seems that perhaps there’s faith required on both sides of the coin?
PS – I love good satire 🙂
Ah, but the unbelievers promptly turn around and tell us that since religions disagree, this “proves” that all of them are nonsense.
As Lewis noted, “the doctor here can diagnose poison without even examining the corpse, for he has a theory of poison he will maintain whatever the state of the organs turns out to be.”