Sentences with phrase «believe irrational things»
Intelligent people are just as likely to believe irrational things as less intelligent people.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Either you are irrational (Like claiming you know Napoleon), or that your ego is so twisted that you actually believe that the «thing» you believe to be the very creator of time, space and dimension interacts with you personally.
When a parent lets a child die from diabetes because they refuse to get medical attention because they thing god will fix them, we have no choice but to show the religious that their believe is irrational and dangerous.
All religions compel their adherents to believe and do strange, irrational things.
John I don't know any atheists who believe in ghosts, leprechauns, Nostradamus, faith healings, astrology, or any other irrational beliefs, but I do know plenty of Christians who do believe in such things, so I can't say that we're as prone to irrational belief as you claim.
Are you pretending to know things just to bolster your irrational believe in supernatural beings and The Babble?
Only one thing is clear: if the narrator chooses to believe that his love is only an irrational force, the positive possibility is entirely foreclosed.
I don't talk about it a lot because rather than exploring belief and how I came to believe it, I generally just get bombarded by both atheists and Christians (primarily, though other theists have bashed me too) for being irrational and stupid and other less interesting insulting things.
The fact of our ignorance is NOT good enough reason to believe that those things are unknowable or irrational.
And people with high IQ scores can still believe and do things that are irrational and illogical — in a word, stupid (New Scientist, 30 March 2013, page 30).
Even if I am fully aware of the conflicts inherent in the irrational arguments for things like God, Country, or finding a «soul mate,» I feel like any good faith investigation into these beliefs must acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity really does believe, or at least wants to believe, in romance and myths.