Is blind christian faith a form of mental retardation?
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Blind Faith was a band in the early 70s featuring Eric Clapton!
1165237
no, that is blind faith
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Mental retardation is not judged in the way you suggest.  If it were, one would wonder about the majority of questions and answers on this site.  Additionally, to qualify as  "legally retarded" one would have to have an IQ below 70 and/or be in the bottom 2.5 percent of the population.  I don't know if you have ever flown a high-performance aircraft before, but I can tell you that a retarded person cannot do this.  GW has actually done this, despite what you might want to say about him missing Air National Guard drills, he had to pass through flight school.\n\n\nI also don't think that Phillips Academy, Yale or Harvard have ever graduated anyone with an IQ below 70, even though they may have accepted folks with less than average intelligence at times in exchange for nice endowments.  Please, it is such an easy target to pick on GW.  Show a little originality to vent your spleen!
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at least retards have an excuse for being ignorant. most religious people are not technically retarded. they're just not thinking very much.
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I read through your paper and I must admit that it must have been difficult to cram so much into something so little. Theological debate can go on and on. Just the history of Christianity can even be volumes. \n\nNow, I don't know where you stand with God, I just know that one thing you failed to mention was (well I guess you touched on it a little) was the fact that Christianity is spiritual, hence, "God is Spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24) Ones own relationship with Jesus Christ cannot be by or through the intellect. There's where faith come in. With all do respect, your presentation was accurate, however, we MUST remember that we cannot bring God down to OUR level, we must assend to HIS level through the Holy Spirit and the only way the Truth can be discovered is by faith alone. Good job, and God bless you.
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*  The worst blindness is the spiritual blindness of unbelievers...\n\n(Acts 26:17-18) [Jesus said] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through. \n\n\n*  Yet God's Kingdom will heal literal blindness too!\n\n(Isaiah 35:5) At that time the eyes of the blind ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be unstopped. \n\n(Psalm 146:8) Jehovah is opening the eyes of the blind ones; Jehovah is raising up the ones bowed down; Jehovah is loving the righteous ones.\n\n(Isaiah 42:16) And I will make the blind ones walk in a way that they have not known; in a roadway that they have not known I shall cause them to tread. I shall turn a dark place before them into light, and rugged terrain into level land. These are the things that I will do for them, and I will not leave them.”\n\n(Isaiah 29:18) And in that day the deaf ones will certainly hear the words of the book, and out of the gloom and out of the darkness even the eyes of the blind ones will see.\n\n(Luke 4:18) “Jehovah’s spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release,
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Interesting notion, but no, it is because God wants us to come to Him by faith. THEN He will reveal Himself. Sin is what blinds us and makes us deaf to His voice. Remove the sin issue through the blood of Jesus, and communication is restored. The result of which is a natural desire to do His Word and what is right.\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/o44bt
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Blind faith is for the belief in no god.\n\nThe invisible things of creation are understood by the things that are made (Romans 1:20).  Professors seek to be thought of as wise (verse 22) but they profess evolution (verse 23).  We should prove all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21).  If you have not yet proven the existence of God, that would be a good project to pursue.
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Unfortunately, many mock my faith and perceive me as  a mere simpleton. I am oftentimes shunned by peers because of my beliefs and dismissed when attempting to speak my mind. Frankly, I sometimes find being Christian rather difficult because it is the only religion that can be attacked without being politically incorrect.
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God does not "make children with handicaps."  As long as there is sin in the world, these things will happen.  But . . . . \n\nAll things work for the good of those of love and follow the Lord.  \n\nJohn 9: 1-11   As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"  \n\n"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."   \n\nHaving said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" Some claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him."  But he himself insisted, "I am the man."  How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded.  1He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see."  \n\nGod does not create the difficulties or the disabilities, but He provides a way that we can overcome them and they become part of our testimony of hope to others.
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r u blind, if not then it is a god gifted things.do't think about that
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I believe it is human nature to assume that someone who defies what you believe in, doesn't know what they're talking about. That doesn't make this assumption true however. I am a Christian and I know there are many people out there that are well versed in Christianity, even if they do not share the belief. Some of them probably even know more about it than I do. I know about other religions as well. I think it is important to know about and the different faiths and non-faiths of the world.
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Lack of knowledge /faith in God .
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Christians are not mental.a lot of people are Christians including me.i am not mental and neither is all the other Christians.\n\nGOD BLESS YOU
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I'm a Christian, who sees many errors in the bible. the don't shake my faith at all. That's because my faith isn't blind faith. First, your conversations with fundamentalists are probably being confused, by the ambiguous term, 'literal truth'. Thomas Jefferson wrote a bible, that ignored all the errors you speak of. It was a short read.\n     I try to get dogmatic Christians, to tell me what scriptures they take to be factual, or allegorical first, and then point out the error, after they have committed themselves.\n     A good example, is the creation of day and night, several days before the sun, and the moon. If a Christian, with blind faith believes that the day and night, of the first day of creation is to be taken factually, then they have a much harder time arguing that it is some other form of daylight, or spiritual light, etc., when you point out that the sun was created later.\n     If the mechanism that you refer to kicks in at that point, you might have one angry Christian, who thinks of you as the serpent in their garden. Or, you will have a chance to explore the allegorical lesson presented.\n     The lesson to be learned in this example, is that ancient thinkers, believed that the human eye was the source of light, and that light particle went from the eye to the object, and then to the sun, illuminating the sun in the day. To them, daylight had nothing to do with light from the sun. That was the reasoning behind the rejection of the sun (helios) as a god worth worshipping, because, who needs a sun, during the day. People need light, when it's dark, so the moon would be a better god to worship.\n     Also, the sun and the moon created to rule the day and the night. If that's the case, is the story telling us to worship them? What exactly do they rule? This is very much a pagan concept, and will propably result in the willful ignorance that you refered to, as fundamentalists are forbidden to even think of, much less discuss this concept.\n     The only practical reason for speaking this way to dogmatic Christians, is to identify them, and deter further fruitless conversations.
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Romans 1-2 discusses this issue, and so does 2 Peter 3.  Jesus addresses it in John 6 and a number of other passages.  The New Testament doesn't 'almost' accuse people of being willfully blind.  It *does* accuse people of being willfully blind...but not just those that aren't Christians.  More on that in a second.  \n\nYour idea that people might ignore small truths but not great ones is simply not true to human nature.  The more we want one thing to be true, the more we ignore anything that might convince us otherwise.  Psychologists call it 'confirmation bias.'  It's self-deception (i.e., willful ignorance) by any name, and we're more likely to employ it on things that really matter than we are on trivial things.\n\nSince there is nothing that could possibly have a greater impact on how you live your life than your beliefs about your ultimate origin, nature, and destiny (and the moral implications involved in thoes issues), it's safe to conclude that on precisely those issues, the human tendency to self-deception is greatest.\n\nIf it makes you feel any better, James 1:21ff applies the same concept of willful amnesia/self-deception to Christians who aren't living the way they should, so it's not like the New Testament only applies the concept to non-Christians.
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No. Insane people often can't help their mental imbalance. Christians are lunatics by choice.