Religious Faith. The State of Unshakable Faith

From the religious point of view, faith is the belief in the particular dogmas that comprise the different religions; all religions have their articles of faith. From this aspect, faith may be either rational or blind. Blind faith examines nothing, accepts both the false as well as the true without verification, and clashes at every step with evidence and reason. Taken to the extreme, it produces fanaticism. Whenever faith rests upon error, it collapses sooner or later. Faith that is based on the truth is the only kind assured of the future, because it has nothing to fear from the progress of enlightenment, since whatever is true in obscurity is also true in full light. Every religion claims to be in exclusive possession  of the truth; however, to profess blind faith on a point of belief is to confess one’s inability to demonstrate that one is right.