The Mystery of Believing

Faith is what we have inherently in our nature but if it is use without intelligence by just believing in anything what is said to you without assessing it logically, that faith could ruin and devastate your life.

Faith is really mysterious because you are believing in what you are not certain and sure of and what your eyes do not yet see and touch. Believing in to something quickly like for examplebelieving in God’s existence deviate the realm of logical thinking as some rationalist would say. Before believing in to something immediately, you got to see first that it exist and it is true as most rationalist and realist would suggest if you don’t want yourself to fall into the trap of fraud. Yes, because most people so often given quickly their trust to anyone, they sometimes end up being trapped on a fraudulent activity or become a defenseless victim of the one who deceives them into believing that this and that could make them rich, could give them health, could give them a supernatural powers like in believing in magic formulas, believing in prayer requests which sometimes have charge disguised in a form of donation, believing in love matches which so often not true, and most of all believing in religions’ empty promises of salvation and afterlife which are evidently hegemonic in nature, exploiting people’s money through so called “tithing” and enslaving people through instilling fear and “master-servant” mindset and hate to other religions which does not belong to their own religion which only causes disunity, animosity, discrimination, prejudice, and atrocity to their fellowmen instead of harmony, unity, love, understanding, peace, kindness, respect for life, and equality.

Yes, these would be the result or eventualities of too much faith or too much believing into something. There is term for too much faith beyond already the realm of reason and logic, that is, fanaticism.

Fanaticism is no more spirituality because it is already a blind obsession on something or so called “blind faith” because fanaticism and the fanatics have only one eyes and one sided mind. That is what they only see is the one they obsessively adore, worship and believe in but blind to other things happening around them and their logic, reasoning and intelligence have been eclipse by their fanaticism. Yap, they have been transform into what their religious leaders or religious masters want them to be – slaves and servants. Is this salvation anyway? Perhaps, enslavery and mind control.

What I have discussed above is one of the failures and disasters or in a euphemistic term, a disadvantage of too much believing in to something. Too much faith could make any one blind. Yap, it is the “much” that is always wrong because too “much” is no longer good as what they say.

But faith or believing in have of course good side or advantages, it is only the “too much” that will lead us into a wrong way or will mislead us. Actually, faith and trust keep us work together peacefully with other people or which keeps our community, society, and our world working together harmoniously. For without believing and trusting other people, we could not build any relationship that builds and strengthens our community, our society and our world.

So all I can say don’t stop believing.