Faith and Intellectualism

Faith and intellectualism are two opposite ends of ideology of an individual. In faith, the person believes in the matter without questioning its authenticity. this amounts to blocking the intellectual component of the person's personality. In intellectualism, the persons verifies the authenticity of a matter before him/her and believes only when the matter is found to be true. In this way of believing, the person makes full use of his/her intellect and in the process sharpens it further.


Intellect is the most precious attribute of a human-being making it superior to all other species of life on earth. So, it is distinctive of humanity and without this or without making use of it, the human-being is like any other animal, or in other words, the intellectualism is true humanism.


All matters of God, religions, spirituality, etc. demand faith of people without questioning, or without any intellectual intervention by the person, so are contra-humanity. And conversely, atheism is the real humanism. All faithfuls are just like beggars who live on others' mercies.


All humans have curiosity as a natural instinctive attribute, and curiosity includes knowing a thing in its depth trough use of logic and/or intellect. Use of logic and intellect is intellectualism and need no blind faith. Thus, atheism is an instinctive gift of nature for all those having intellect, and conversely theism is artificial and anti-instinctive.