THE BLIND FURY OF THE FAITHFUL

THE BLIND FURY OF THE FAITHFUL

The more you invest your life's energy in idealising a personality, the more susceptible you are to resorting to fanatical violence at the slightest perceived offence against him from an apparent adversary. This is the standard response of the indoctrinated ones in a fanatical exclusive faith.

Faith makes it worse as reason by way of fundamental condition is ruled out and submission to an unseen and imagined entity imposed arbitrarily on the compliant ignorant masses. Once the faith has taken hold of a sizeable section of people, it goes on to increase its irrational hold on its adherents through brainwashing from birth, cultural transmission, threats here and of hellfire hereafter for doubting or disbelieving, overall a cultural conditioning and a political subjugation that allows one entry into the fold but blocks exit. Proliferation in numbers through procreation, proselytising and checking apostasy by death-threats is how such a faith seemingly flourishes, bringing death to civilisation in the process.

Such movements are not spiritual in the least but are purely politically motivated while wearing the garb of religion. They must be resisted for the sake of saving humanity from barbarism. The regressive outlook of such faiths slows down human evolution and must be rejected outright to hasten human progress.

We are in such a time when large numbers of ex-believers are mustering force to undo the damage that this sort of a fanatical faith is causing. All strength unto them! The combined might of a large body of rational people must inevitably defeat the forces of darkness but the price, nonetheless, has to be paid before such evil is eliminated to usher in a humane order of things.

Written by Sugata Bose