But I think many people don't realize that science is their religion:
a blind faith in something they don't understand but they think it can't be wrong.
Religion means
blind faith in something that can not be seen or proven.
Not exact matches
I understand that some will hate my opinion,
something normal
in religious
blind minds that confuse love with
faith.
To make the statement «I believe there is no god» would go against my nature because belief (
in anything, even the non-existence of
something) requires
blind faith.
I was condemning religion, or more specifically
blind faith (i.e. believing
in something without proof).
It leaves those desperate to support left with nothing if others can't or won't step
in to support
something on
blind faith.
Blind faith involves believing
in something that has no basis
in reality.
As an aside, on granting permission to appeal (as an application for permission to appeal had to be issued as the Judge had rejected the oral application for permission to appeal at the original hearing), the Court of Appeal had recognised that it was unusual for an exercise of judicial discretion to be appealed but stated that the decision of His Honour Judge Purle QC was highly speculative as to «border on the Micawberism» (which those of you versed
in classic literature will recognise as a reference to a character
in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, who continually holds
blind faith that «
something will turn up»).