I think that , like many things, it comes from fear. Fear that this life is all we have. Fear that the universe doesn't care about us. Fear of death. Fear makes you do(and believe) stupid things.

I do not. I permit others to have faith and see no value in challenging it.

I sometimes say “I have faith in one‘s ability to do X” when I really mean I have confidence. but in my case “faith” has an extra element of humor in it when I use it because it implies there is a supernatural element in my confidence. im a technologist, I work with highly complex over engineered systems that I am frequently surprised work at all, so I think it‘s funny.

I have always asserted the religious faith is a mental illness.
It is based on delusion. Delusion is a symptom of mental illness.

You left out Intelligent Design.

I think faith (aka hope or wishful thinking) is fien in the absence of facts.

However, when a person believes in spite fo the avaialbe facts taht crosses the line out of the rhelms of faith and into the rhelms of willful ignorance. This is the route mos treligions have taken, as facts disprove various parts of what they believe... they stil choose to believe in them despite evidence to the contrary.

Faith in the theological sense is an anti-intellectual evil, the veneration of fantasy over fact, the glorification of ignorance and an insult to human progress.
Faith say truth is a lie, reality is deception and thinking is a sin, faith is double think.
I loathe it.

Same as yours.

Its a way of kind of believing without actually saying so.

There is a very fine line between faith and delusion...

Good George Michael song. Blind Faith had a pretty good album. Other than that ... I have faith in the inherent goodness of man. Yes, I'm disappointed daily, but still i remain optimistic.

Faith is what people say when they know their belief system doesn’t pass a rational thinking system. I went to a Lutheran grade school and a day never went by when I didn’t hear that word a dozen times. It’s anti intellectual gibberish and a big reason I became an Atheist. I’m wired to discussions based on reason and facts.

I say the exact same thing

I have faith in my driving ability, my electrical repairs but not my plumbing skills, mostly in the airliners I ride in and in my kids. Some Sky fairy? Nawwww...

Blind Faith

It's a disease.

Like syphilis, or cancer, but nastier.

Depends on where the needle vsits on my gas gauge and if I know where I'm at. Faith needs hope, hope doesn't need faith.

I don't really think about it much because I am not sure I have any - Everybody in my early life abused me or let me down, so I gave up on people. I certainly don't have faith in most people. I don't need to trust because i learned to look out for myself . I wouldnt say I am strong but I am certainly self sufficient and don't see why I would blindly trust anyone with anything that is precious to me.

Faith is another word for belief and if you believe something to be true, it usually happens. This theory is based on quantum physics and can be scientifically tested. Words and emotions are also scientifically tested and proven to be a source of alchemy. We have an invisible, energetic forcefield around us that has materialistic properties behind it to manifest energy out of thin air. The same machines that can detect this invisible forcefield can also detect infrared, microwave and WiFi signals.
You literally have your scientific translation behind the religious interpretations of faith within the click of a button.
If your interested, I can show you some links.

I agree with the OP in every way here except for one. The source of that unquestioning blind faith is not ONE BOOK. In the Christian religion it is at least 66 books bound as one and will be more if you are Catholic. It follows as a point of logic that these books do not and cannot agree with each other. They may appear not to disagree but that is another matter. A cookbook doesn't disagree with Harry Potter either.

It's a matter of defining our words, isn't it? We make a distinction between religious faith, which means believing things for which there is no evidence, or the evidence is contrary, and the faith we use in normal life, which is the equivalent of having confidence in something or someone, because we have good reasons for it.

I agree with you, faith and blind faith are dangerous, just look at all the religious cults that ended up with murder suicide, don't drink the Kool Aid! Faith is belief without evidence and I for one need evidence and that one book is NOT the evidence, it is the declaration that it is true without proof in ANY secular records from the time to verify the veracity of the claims which BTW were all made centuries after the supposeded facts.

When I get the "faith" argument, I ask the person to please name any other aspect of their lives in which they operate on only faith. When they give me the standard answers, I go into detail explaining why their reasons are not actually faith.

This is part of a post I recently made here.
On Faith:
Faith arises from a mysitical experience. Faith in a religion is due to one's mystical experience in the framework of that religion. Testimony of that faith and of that mystical experience is hearsay. If several mystics write a book about their faith, then it is compounded or second hand hearsay. When translated from one language to another, then hearsay is layered on hearsay.
Hearsay is not evidence.
On the other hand, I don't dismiss faith that others may have, for I have not had the mystical experience. For myself, I prefer to believe that which I can see, what my senses can measure when extended by my instruments.
If faith gives someone comfort so be it, but they should not expect to impress others with professions of your faith by it UNLESS it is accompanied by living a life in a way that impresses others. Of these, there are few. In my life I have known only a very small handful.

I have to add that I do draw the line when someone of faith attempts to turn the rubrics of their faith into law.

There is no rationalizing faith, it is toxic garbage.

Faith and belief are certainly the most dangerous cognitive traps . There is nothing more dangerous than a man or women of Faith.
It’s an antisocial mental illness that refuses evidence based thinking in favor of prejudice and dogma.
Doubt ! Doubt everything and demand evidence , and even when the evidence is useful continue to question.
Right?
That’s us at our best!
That’s what drives our creative and inventive capacity .