darth_ender said:

In response to Frink's inquiry, I'm sure I will take flak for this, but sometimes a person of faith acts on faith, even if they are not sure why. Sometimes God simply wishes to test our obedience. Looking at the kosher laws of the Old Testament, God did not mention how much cholesterol or the various parasites you might find in pork. They simply obeyed because God wanted them to. "Oh no! Blind faith!"

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Reading this made me want to chime in. I think accepting something "on blind faith" simply because a religion advocates it is the first step down a potentially very dangerous and disturbing path. When people forgo reason and common sense in the name of their religious beliefs, it opens the door to a whole host of questionable, and possibly terrible, acts.

Granted, abstaining from drinking coffee or tea is an innocuous rule to observe, and one with no societal repercussions. But the same rationale of following a questionable rule on nothing more than faith could lead someone of another belief system to condemn others (e.g., homosexuals, people of other ethnicities) for no other reason than "our church/mosque/shrine/religious leader/religious text told us to."

Sorry for the rant, but I just find the observance of religious doctrine at the expense of logical thought a bit worrisome due to where it can potentially lead.