"Blind faith" carries along with it a slightly negative connotation - the implication that one's belief in something is irrational, non-logical, reason-defying, and necessarily, without any foundational basis. It is therefore necessarily a faith that simply exists for the sake of existing, an undefinable, amorphous concept that would be taken by many to be foolish.

Take for example the case of catching a bus. Since the bus timetable states that the bus will arrive at precisely 7am every day, it is thus logical to assume that the bus actually will do so, since the timetable is printed by the bus company which manages the bus service. There is a reason in this assumption, an underpinning logic that pervades and validifies its function as a rational belief. However, if no timetable exists and yet one believes for no apparent reason that the bus will arrive a 7am everyday (assuming that it is one's first time taking the bus), then such a belief can be classified as irrational, since it has no logical basis. In other words, it is blind faith.

Take this logic, apply it to religion, and you have a major divide within the religious arena. The first group encompasses those who believe in a religion for the sake of believing, out of habit, upbringing, or circumstance - those who can be classified as having their realities circumscribed by blind faith. Some components of this group cling helplessly to what they have been taught to believe - through upbringing, environment or other factors - as doing so gives their lives order, meaning and hope. Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, (three major religions of the world today) subscribe to a fixed set of values and beliefs, such as impending salvation, and ordered tenets of self-conduct.

To be continued...