Ten-Finger Exercises

Blind faith and Nature

I've run across two comments recently that left me laughing and shaking my head. The first was from a news commentator a couple of months ago when the 8.0 earthquake shook Concepcion, Chili, followed by many other smaller ones. These were in the wake of less powerful but more devastating quakes in Haiti two months before.

"Is Nature out of control?" the newscaster began.

Duh.

This week a poster on Facebook, using a similar news commentator tone, asked, "Blind Faith - what is it? Is is real? Should we go with it? Should we avoid at all costs?"

And someone responded, "i believe in faith if there is something to back it up....."



I think I'll leave it there. Maybe I'll address the issue of blind faith at another time, but for now I'm still shaking my head.