Blind Faith

What is Blind Faith and what does it mean to possess Blind Faith?

Blind Faith was an English blues rock band, composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969. They were stylistically similar to the bands in which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated, Traffic and Cream. They helped to pioneer the genre of blues/rock fusion.

Blind Faith is the self-titled and only studio album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Europe and on Atlantic Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK and Canada as well as the Billboard 200, even peaking at #40 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart, an impressive feat for an English rock quartet. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.[3] In addition, Rolling Stone published three reviews of the album in their 6 September 1969 issue, which were written by Ed Leimbacher, Lester Bangs, and John Morthland.

While that is not the answer I was seeking, it did take me down memory lane temporarily... and as I recall losing all sights of understanding and awareness... I realize there were no drugs in my body and had not been any drugs in my body since I was 25 over 40 years ago... so, what was I acting this way?

My first search for Blind Faith had obviously triggered this memory and thank goodness I was able to pull myself out of it quickly...

The phrase “blind faith” means different things to different people, and, sadly, many people use it as a negative, disparaging term to describe anyone who believes in God. A dictionary definition of blind faith is “belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.”

Ah... there it is!!! But, I wonder how many of us truly have it? But first, there is this question: Does God expect us to have blind faith?

A dictionary definition (above) of blind faith is “belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.”

Is this the kind of faith God desires us to have?

Is the kind of faith God gives us... a blind faith?​

Is our faith really to be blind, without true understanding?

See (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Throughout Scripture we find that reason, wisdom, and logic are lifted up as good traits. For example, Proverbs 3:13 says we are blessed when we find knowledge and understanding. Hebrews 5:12-14 reproves teachers for not learning and growing in understanding. Paul commends the church at Berea because they searched the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul said was true (Acts 17:11). In many places throughout Acts the apostle Paul was said to “reason” with the lost, attempting to prove to them the truth of his words. James 1:5 even tells us to ask God for wisdom, which He gives “generously to all without finding fault.” Source: 

So many of us have been told not to question what the Bible says or what is said in Churches throughout the United States by Ministers, Pastors, and Priests, that we should accept it as it is and be thankful that it was given to us out of GRACE...

But, I disagree with this philosophy and have little respect for those who simply expect me to have blind faith... as if they presuppose that I am not capable of understanding such a difficult concept as that of faith.

And so, we have our Churches to tell us what to believe...

We also have our governments telling us how to live...

We also have our law enforcement telling us how to behave in public...

We have our courts punishing us when we have transgressed...

I guess what we can do these days is

• Ingest
• Defecate
• Fornicate
• Work
• Die

There is another concept, other than religion, to which we take a blind eye (or are supposed to) and that is JUSTICE... and, we all know how that shit is going... especially those of us who are living in the African American communities throughout the US.

Is JUSTICE really blind or is she just squinting her eyes and simply appears to be blind because the image was invented on a sunny day? Obviously, that is absurd but I just had to write it.

JUSTICE is supposed to be blind because JUSTICE theoretically does not care about wealth, power, position, race, gender, fame, or notoriety unless you are a foreign dignitary and have Diplomatic Immunity Status.

And then there is public justice and private justice which is to say that public justice can be located inside and around our judicial system but private justice (and I am not speaking of vigilantes) is what we can expect to find inside companies that is typically administered by the Human Resources Departments who have no legal training at all or very little at best.

So, we have this female employee who flirts with her male boss (for whatever reason or motivation) and this female (excuse the expression) is built like a brick shit house with a face to go with it, and the male boss instantly but reluctantly falls prey to her advances and they exchange all sorts of “heated and erotically suggestive” emails... However, since they are both married, she convinces him that both of them should delete all correspondence...

He does this religiously (no pun intended) but she does not but he does not know that she has not. And so one day, she gets pissed at him for some reason and cries out to HR that she has been sexually harassed and shares all the emails as proof... When he is confronted by HR and says this was mutually agreeable, he has no evidence to support his claim and he is terminated and she gets a promotion on the way to his former job.

Granted... it was not too smart on his part but if we look at her part in all of this, it certainly seems to be premeditated at the very least.

But, the point to all of this is that Faith and/or Justice is never blind nor am I sure that it should be blind because being blind is not reflective of life itself.

A few years ago, I had the sad opportunity of traveling to Florida to sit in the audience and observe the trial of a man who while under the influence of alcohol killed 3 American soldiers who were returning home themselves from a night of drinking but were turning into their apartment complex at 4 miles per hours and were hit by this man's car which was estimated to be exceeding 80 MPH and there was absolutely no indication of the brakes being applied... the soldier's car was pushed the length of 2 football fields until it smashed into a telephone pole.

Before the trial began, the Prosecutor informed me and those with whom I was with that the jury pool in this area was comprised only of those who had been convicted of a previous crime...

I found this amazing and still do... in all the movies and television shows about lawyers and the courtroom, this type of problem has not ever been alluded to of which I am aware... and these shows like to address current themes to increase ratings.

In other words and because there is so much crime everywhere in America that being tried by a jury of our peer means that most of them 80% or higher in some cases have also broken the law.

No way in hell can JUSTICE be blind... and, maybe like FAITH it is not supposed to...