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I wouldn't say “blind”, but yes it's about acting on ideas that may be wrong. But you do that when you marry someone (does they actually love you? You can't know), or everytime you trust someone. Life is taking decisions without knowing. It's the same with the existence of a God: the only purely rational position is agnosticism. But for me, to be agnostic is like refusing to accept the love of someone because they may betray you. It's a rational decision, it may be enough for you and it's okay, but for me it's not enough.
When we take decisions without knowing, ignorant decisions, we not only hurt ourselves, but those close to us. It's simple statistics.
I wouldn't betray a love of my family or friends by willingly endangering them for my religious believes. See, the love argument goes both ways. :P
But you can't act only when you know all the parameters, that was the sense of my love metaphor.
Some people are more happy without religion. Some other are more happy with a good religion. I do not live in America, I live in a country where religions, all religions combined, are followed by a minority of the population. So most children has no religious ties and teachings at all. A lot are happy like that, but others suffer without knowing why. Religion should be a freedom.