How can faith blind/impair our perception?
This question i thought might be good for what we're learning in class. People should be thinking about it.
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Perception of what? Life? The world? A rabid Ann Colter?
Or a rabid Annie Dillard. That would be frightening too. Also, I don't think my empty threats have reached you yet, so I'll make another one: I. I I I I I I. All I ask is that you capitilize I.
Anyhoo, insert comment here, I'll do it later.
I see faith as not blinding perception, but most definitely impairing it through indoctrinated biases. Objective perception is "perception" in it's purest form, and we as human beings stray from that purity already with automatic judgments based on our environment and stimuli. Religion just throws another wrench in the works - it, as an institution, is based on conservative and steadfast beliefs. If something you perceive contradicts these beliefs, then you will force yourself to not perceive it in that way. This skewers any possible interpretations you could've gained from the perception. Does this make any sense?
i think faith gives us something to believe in to keep us hoping and trusting that maybe the world isn't quite as bad as we have seen it to be and reminds us of the fairy tales fantasys of how we all believed the world should be. if we don't have faith in anything then what's the point of living? after all, in english we've been told by camus that there is no greater meaning to life. faith just gives us something to make our perception worth anything. to directly answer the question, no faith does not blind or impair our perception, it makes our perception worth something.
I agree with Vvynnnnnnniiii. You spell your name in about 23 different ways, my man.
CAPITALIZE THE I.
If you straddle the world of belief there is no way for one to be burned by either blind faith or by naive aetheism
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