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ishna jiWithout belaboring the topic with details - most who resist the idea of faith are reacting to the idea of "blind faith" which conjures up an image of someone who is just going through the motions of believing in God or conforming to the rules of a belief system compulsively.John Dewey, the American academic psychologist and educational theorist, had a similar idea about morality. He felt that people who follow the rules of morality just because they are rules are not moral. People who follow the rules for fear of punishment in this life or another life are not acting morally. He also argued that people who act from innocence or ignorance of moral choices before them are not moral either.He described morality as acting in awareness of one's choices between "good" and "evil" and awareness of the reasons why our values guide our behavior. So one would have to make conscious and deliberate moral choices to be a moral person. Morality can never be blind. Extending that to the difference between "faith" and "blind faith" ... one has made a deliberate choice to believe and is aware that one has made that choice without any need or impulse to conform to external pressures or fears of punishment.To Marthin Luther's point. One takes the first step without seeing the whole staircase because one chooses to. The basis for the choice is probably a very individual thing.
ishna ji
Without belaboring the topic with details - most who resist the idea of faith are reacting to the idea of "blind faith" which conjures up an image of someone who is just going through the motions of believing in God or conforming to the rules of a belief system compulsively.
John Dewey, the American academic psychologist and educational theorist, had a similar idea about morality. He felt that people who follow the rules of morality just because they are rules are not moral. People who follow the rules for fear of punishment in this life or another life are not acting morally. He also argued that people who act from innocence or ignorance of moral choices before them are not moral either.
He described morality as acting in awareness of one's choices between "good" and "evil" and awareness of the reasons why our values guide our behavior. So one would have to make conscious and deliberate moral choices to be a moral person. Morality can never be blind. Extending that to the difference between "faith" and "blind faith" ... one has made a deliberate choice to believe and is aware that one has made that choice without any need or impulse to conform to external pressures or fears of punishment.
To Marthin Luther's point. One takes the first step without seeing the whole staircase because one chooses to. The basis for the choice is probably a very individual thing.
