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BLIND FAITH AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."
Sting
 
I am just going to throw this out there and say that blind faith
does not only refer to the belief in one supreme God or higher deity.
Some people chose to believe in science. Regardless of what faith
you practice, there is a fact that our faith sometimes creates a blind
spot that distorts the reality causing us to make decisions that we
probably wouldn’t if we were in our right and proper state of mind.
But before we get into the what, let us look at the why.
When I talked about vulnerability in an earlier chapter, I did
say that the very things that makes us human are some of the things
that makes us vulnerable and susceptible to the machinations of
dark psychology. For some people, these influences are evident than
others. Our beliefs in deities predates even the earliest civilization.
Man has always regarded his existence as a small fraction in the
universal scheme of things and so we believe that there are forces
that are bigger, greater and divine. If you examined things logically,
this kind of thinking made sense because it helped our minds cope
with the inexplicable things that happens all around us.
You see a beautiful flower and marvel at how something so
exquisite and delicate could just be…without thought, without
pattern, it just is. We look at the big expanse of the sky and wonder
what lies beyond. Does it just go on forever? Or does it just tapper
off into an endless end? When you hear the powerful roar of the
waterfall or the earth-shaking sounds made by a thunder blast, even
with the advancements and knowledge made available to us, we still
quake in fear and awe. Back then, your choices were to either let the
fear drive you insane or you rationalize the situation by pinning it on

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a sovereign being that is bigger than you. Some of the braver folk
chose to use science to do their explanation.
Staying with this same line of thinking, when someone we
love dies, we are forced to confront our own mortality. Our grief is
compounded by questions regarding life and death. Does the
journey end here or does it continue into the afterlife? This has been
a strong motivational force behind today’s belief systems. The fear
and consideration given to the life after this life has spurred many
into making the “right choices” here so that when death comes, the
life that we hope continues after us is favorable for us. It is our own
way of manipulating the final outcome so to speak because the
alternative as it is been portrayed to us is so grim. Some people prey
on our fear of the afterlife that they use it to manipulate us into
getting what they want.
If we hold this afterlife theory in such high esteem, you can
imagine how we treat people who are considered mouthpieces of the
deities that control the afterlife. Pastors, Imams, Rabbis and all other
form of religious leaders are held in such high reverence that their
words are considered the words of the deity in question. Generally
speaking, these religious leaders are meant to apply morally sound
principles in accordance with their respective offices and act in the
best interest of their members. If not for any other reason, at least to
promote the tenets of the faith they claim to represent. However, this
is not always the case as we have come to realize. A lot of religious
leaders abuse their roles and influence by deceiving their members
into making decisions that only serve their selfish agendas.
The common tactic is to use the name of the principal deity to
twists the words that are drawn from the religion’s sacred manual to
mean new things that corroborate whatever story they are making up
in order to help them successfully manipulate the people. A lot of
people have been swindled, physically hurt and even made to
commit atrocious crimes under this guise. Another method these
false leaders use is claiming to have a vision or spiritual insight into a
specific need that the victim has. They create an elaborate story that
is a mishmash of lies interspersed with the truth (usually obtained
unknowingly from the victim or third parties) and the main goal is to

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extort the victim for money, favor or just power play. Some victims
are coerced to part with more money than they can ever hope to
have. In some cases, young impressionable victims are brainwashed
into living in fear under occult-like situations.
But, scenarios like these don't just end in religious houses.
There are people who are not affiliated with any religion, but they like
to consider themselves spiritually open. Such people would
encounter fake psychics and mediums who claim to have a strong
connection with the netherworld. Again, our attachment to people
who have died as well as our concerns for what happens after death
clouds our judgments and leaves us open to crooks who would like
to manipulate the situation to their advantage. They employ the
same trick of the false religious leaders using deception and lies to
manipulate their victims. Victims go for a 10-minute psychic reading
of their horoscopes and palms only to get strung along for years with
promises, altered realities and false hopes. Causing them to spend
thousands and thousands of dollars searching for the elusive "truth".
People who place their hope in science are not immune to
manipulations. If you are thinking that because your faith is anchored
to legible and factual science, you cannot be influenced, think again.
When there is a crisis, people revert to what they believe in. For a
science believer, you naturally turn to science. There are cases
where people with debilitating medical condition seek out
unconventional medicine in a bid to outlive the disease. Knowing that
the best of conventional medicine has failed, they turn to these
outliers who claim to have the solution with their experimental drugs
and never-been-done-before medical procedures. Unfortunately,
these procedures are too risky, too expensive and often uninsured.
But the slim chance of life is worth every penny and this is what the
fraudulent people exploit.
And it is not just in crisis. You have people come up with
wonder solutions to a mass problem like weight loss and so on. They
claim that their latest diet fad, wonder pill or technology can
transform us using scientific theories that have not been tested and
verified. A lot of people buy into the promise of this transformation
based on information that has been specifically manipulated to extort

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victims. The main difference between religious con leaders and
these purveyors of fake science is that instead of a deity, they use
science when swindling their victims. And sadly, most people don’t
realize until is too late just how badly they are being affected.
When it comes to belief, those who use dark psychology key
into your deepest needs and exploit it. They use that which you hold
sacred to manipulate your thought process. And sometimes, the
sacredness of it doesn’t really matter. As long as it is important to
you, they consider it a gold mine of some sort. And there is no
greater time to mine and individual so to speak than when that
individual is experiencing a crisis. This is because, in your moment
of crisis, you are at your weakest and most susceptible to the
influences of others and people have been known to manipulate
things to their own advantage.

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