Sentences with phrase «holding irrational beliefs»
Intelligence is not a barrier to holding irrational beliefs.
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Just as plenty of religious folks can be quite rational when it comes to economics and decisions about their work, for instance, atheists can hold irrational beliefs in other areas such as politics, and social values.
Not exact matches
considering that theological beliefs are irrational (that is, they obtain despite a lack of evidence) why hold specific religious / theological views at all?
It causes people to make irrational decisions and hold illogical opions that deny facts then those same people try to use their silly beliefs to pass laws that they want the rest of us to abide by.
========== Atheists are on this board all day every day with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid» (the nice version is «people that believe in God are engaging in holding rational and irrational beliefs simultaneously, but we wont call them «stupid»)», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.
Thus, on an ancestral chain model, no one could literally be faulted at time t2, later than t1, for holding to an irrational belief at t1.
So what is the rationale for holding onto this irrational belief that is without a valid premise?
They are not the irrational beliefs held by anti-scientific «deniers».