I wouldn't describe the cause of most people's belief as blind faith.
Many theists are taught religion is true by people they learn to trust, and who typically don't deceive them about other important things. There are books by eye witnesses describing things that are only really explicable if their religion is true. For many of them, the state and society have religious belief woven into their fabric. Some of the best-educated and most respected members of their community act in word and deed to show their belief. Their religion explains all sorts of tricky things, like what is right and wrong, how the world began, and what happens when we die.
That doesn't sound like blind faith, any more than believing that your seat belt will protect you in a car crash, or that the sun orbits around the earth (if you lived in a heliocentric-believing society).
These reasons to believe also don't make any particular religion true.



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