"Blind obedience" means following orders or rules without questioning or thinking for oneself.
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I wonder sometimes if they are in denial, if they've checked their brains and their hearts at the door in the name
of blind obedience and easy peace.
The other thing I've noticed is that there isn't such a thing
as blind obedience in a Boxer.
God is an angry jealous God, and God uses threats of violence to
inspire blind obedience, exhibiting the worst traits of the worst humans, and that was the clincher for me.
Specos empor, beware you may think Bill is selling love and salvation but it is
really blind obedience to dogma and the hierarchy of the RCC, resist.
Why on earth would I care to leave that to someone who threatens me, asks me to to
put blind obedience in him in front of everything else, and provides nothing more than an even GREATER hollow promise of some amorphously - defined eternal life?
Healthy relationships aren't about controlling other people or one person demanding
blind obedience from the other, they're about respecting each other and each person setting the limits they need to stay safe and happy.
Genocide studies have often split offenders into organizers — mainly political and community leaders — and «ordinary men» who kill out
of blind obedience to central or local authorities and hatred of those deemed enemies.
Maybe that's because people were equating «control»
with blind obedience, harsh punishments, and domineering, manipulative behavior (Baumrind 1966).
God is not the overpowering heavenly dictator who demands
blind obedience, but «our Savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth» (1 Tim 2:4).
By the way, willful ignorance and
blind obedience to religion is insulting to the evolved brain you have the privilege of having.
It must be nice to be a part of a religion that requires no proof or thought, but merely willful ignorance and
blind obedience.
«When it's something we like, we say it's commitment to an idea; when it's something we don't like, we say it's
blind obedience,» said Douglas Jacobsen, a theology professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.
Like most religions, they demanded
blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.
It's that system of credulity and
blind obedience that shows that the Holocaust wasn't caused by a lack of religion.
Whatever happened to
the blind obedience that the Vatican always assumed it could count on from the devout laity?»
Ward's answer is that morality is a «reasoned response to Supreme Valueand neither a wholly autonomous decision about how to live nor
blind obedience to a set of arbitrary divine commands».
Father Greeley has been around for a long time and can remember when the «
blind obedience» myth still had a modicum of plausibility.
The religious person allows the dogma of their religion to override their conscience without empathy of others due to
blind obedience or personal integrity.
They demanded
blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.
How can you pledge
your blind obedience to an amoral God?
Like religion, they demanded
blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.
The only person who would demand
our blind obedience is a tyrant.
Which means that obedience is not based on the recognition of wisdom, not based on understanding, and not based on emotional consent, you are required to have
the blind obedience of a slave.
Like religions, they demand
blind obedience and obsequious submission from their followers.
It begins to look more like radical trust than
blind obedience.
Charry rightly shows that the moral commandments in Scripture are overwhelmingly of the sort, «Do this in order to flourish»; Scripture does not summon us to
blind obedience to heteronomous norms but to a thoughtful appropriation and continued reapplication of sapiential guidance.
Who are you to say that Islam is evil, all religion is evil it promotes ignorance, intolerance and
blind obedience and backs this up with torture and death.
But when we read with what casuistic rules the practical following of this principle is burdened, we see that the fundamental idea of the Jewish ethic,
blind obedience, still dominates.
Subordination should not be interpreted as
blind obedience (Kadavergehorsam).
We simply took what was given us and continued to multiply and consume in
blind obedience to instincts inherited from our humbler, more brutally constrained Paleolithic ancestors.