Does blind faith create ignorance in the masses?

Yes.

Faith is basically believing in something because you want to believe it to be true (or fear it to be true). It is base on emotional attachment to an idea. Religion plays on this emotional attachment. Because religion is not based on evidence and reason, it also discourages it's followers from critical thought, especially critical thought aimed at itself.

To have blind faith, you must turn a blind eye to reality. This means remaining purposefully ignorant of the world.

Having blind faith can be a dangerous thing. If you have faith without question, they how can you formulate open honest opinions, and know what is right and what is wrong.

I do not trust, nor have faith blindly. If there is something I don't understand within my religious path, or within my life, I will ask, research and question. I will not just accept that it is so, because someone said it was, or some book, claims it was.

To have blind faith is to close your mind to the possibility that there may be something else out there. Having faith in something is good, just don't do it blindly, make sure your eyes and your mind are wide open, so that you may experience all that life has to offer.

We fear what we do not understand, and what we fear we tend to try and destroy.

Absolutely. Trying to have a conversation w/someone who has blind faith is like talking to purple fairies. Intelligence is completely lost.

Then again blind faith serves it's purpose. It controls the masses, & I'd hate to see what it would be like if there were no control of the masses.

The point is some of the greatest scientists in our time were shunned & outcast for the theories they had...years later I guess we can see they weren't just theories or wild ideas after all.

If you see that thing that you have faith in, that is no faith at all. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?" Heb 11:1; Rom 8:24. On the contrary, faith in the word of God only refines and ennobles the character. Before Christ came into my heart, I was just a thug-like character, but after giving my heart to the Saviour, many things, such as my knowledge and understanding, has greatly multiplied.

Of course it does. Expecting that people will believe something without a shadow of a doubt simply because they truly believe in an ultimate realization. For instance, many Christians accept a lot of what is in the Bible, whether it is historically valid or not, simply because their religion tells them to.

I'm Roman Catholic, but that doesn't mean I completely accept what the church does and teaches. Anything established and maintained by humans does not surpass human error, and with that people can blindly believe in something without real cause, yet simply do so as an act of faith. And that goes for any religion or beleif, the church is just one example.

Blind faith does create a lot of ignorance and false hope for many people. That is not to say that what they believe in is false, but when people choose to believe something simply cause they have faith in it, they're only taking away their liberty and accepting something, with or without rational reasoning.

Heather, blind faith surely does. I've been fooled and disappointed by many people I've trusted. If you're referring to Christianity, and I believe you are, then God says in the Book of Malachi to put him to the test, and try and see if his word is not true.

Many people are expecting God to materialize their wants and wishes right before their eyes, the way Captain Kirk would beem somebody up or down. I've had to live a lifetime to see many of God's promises come true...I've also seen him prove himself faithful in times of need and despair. My faith in him doesn't need to be blind. I can testify to the goodness of the Lord.

Our university system can trace its origins back to the monasteries of medieval times. Even Oxford, the most reknowned university in the world, was started by monks. The monks kept knowledge and learning alive during some of the darkest times in Western history, and it is thanks to them that we have all of the benefits of modern learning, such as mathematics, physics, medicine and so on. These days universities are predominantly secular, especially in the hard sciences, so it is easy for us to forget the debt that we owe to the early religious academics. Many great scientists, such as Galileo, received their education from monasteries. It is a gross distortion of the truth to link faith and ignorance.

Yes it does, but it isn't exclusive to having faith in God. Remember that blind faith in leaders has lead to the rise and absolute power of the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao as well.

Chicken and egg question. Ignorant masses and blind faith go hand in hand. Which comes first? Who really knows? But they are like peanut butter and jelly, especially on this site.

Blind faith yes, but considered and pondered faith leads to truth.