You will find complete, absolute atheism, not a conscious atheism, but rather the animal atheism of an uneducated man, the atheism of a cat or dog. They call themselves believers, and they lie: they neither believe in nor rely upon that God to whom woman, children, idealists, and people in misfortune like to turn. N.G. Pomyalovsky
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The belief in God is more than just blind faith. It is more than just the soul of the believer. This is not to say that blind faith is not important, but rather that it is not the full picture. Blind faith may be the soul of the believer, but it is not the mind.

A mind that believes does not mean that it thinks rationally or with any degree of objectivity. We all think with our brains, but some of us think more rationally than others. Some people think with their hearts and some people only think with their heads.

It may sound like splitting hairs, but it matters because belief comes from the soul, which means it comes from feeling, emotion, and impulse. When you believe something without considering your logic or without considering other points of view, you are acting out of emotion and impulse rather than thought and reason.

Source: Seminary Sketches

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