Sentences with phrase «irrational belief did»

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I do not care one iota if you like what I write or say about your irrational beliefs.

Does it not occur to you zealots that your insistence on clinging to these deeply antiquated and divisive beliefs is also thoroughly offensive to those of us who do not cling to such irrational thoughts?

Your need for «meaning» does not justify irrational «beliefs» in anything.

On another note if I make up my own stupid, irrational belief system do I get to write about it on the front page of a «news» site too?

A person that does obviously doesn't weight evidence or use logic and precedence for their personal beliefs, so it is not so far - fetched to have an irrational atheist become a theist (also irrational) after having a so - called «spiritual experience.»

So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is.

It does make for some irrational and nonsensical beliefs.

If you merely have a lack of belief that Bigfoot is real (you do nt make the claim «Bigfoot does not exist»), why would you consider anyone that does believe in Bigfootto have done so for completely irrational reasons??

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.

we're human... we're irrational to the core... nothing you can do about it unless you want to become inhuman... don't like irrational beliefs?

I do care if those irrational beliefs are used to discriminate against others.

As another example, atheists have an irrational belief that the God of Abraham does nt exist, they have governments controlled by their atheists leaders (China, former Soviet Union), and an uneducated population living in poverty, and I'm not aware of them killing over 100million people in the past 100 years alone..

That would actually be one of the kinder ways to describe a person who believes that other people deserve to be punished for ever just because they don't share the same irrational belief system.

For example, you would consider that Buddhists have irrational beliefs and I'm not aware of any great terrorist action they have done.

The 9/11 terrorists had just delivered a devastating and violent example of what irrational beliefs can drive people to do.

They recognize and fault religious extremism in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the middle - east as being irrational and as blindly leading those people to support actions and positions causing severe problems... yet they don't question their own blind extremism and the obvious aggressive exploitation of their own beliefs.

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.

Further, as already indicated, I would add that this second condition does not need to be met at the moment the thought is articulated; otherwise, all creative advances in thinking, which break beyond established beliefs and theory, would be discarded as incoherent and even irrational.

@ > Mr.N... I'm not hung up on attacking, but I DO have my reservations about those with irrational beliefs.

I'm merely pointing out that while Atheists don't believe in a God, they still cling to irrational faith - beliefs.

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

For the record, don't believe in any religion and don't attempt to pretend I know the secrets of the universe, but I also try hard to not belittle those with beliefs, no matter how irrational I find them.

I am Greek Orthodox and as such we do believe in birth control, but to force the Catholic Church to go against its beliefs is against Freedom of Religion in our country After giving over 1,200 waivers this administration chose to force the Catholic Church to follow its regulations is irrational.

Maybe not a «cult», but atheists sometimes have the irrational belief that everyone who doesn't believe what they believe is irrational or evil.

Belief in something with no evidence to do so is completely irrational.

And when logical people demand proof in order to justify having those beliefs forced on them, theists throw up the irrational «prove god doesn't exist!»

True, you can never prove that somebody is speaking the truth, but we shouldn't just jump to «they don't really believe that» just because the belief might sound irrational to us.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

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.

This belief discourages constructive action, and can result in irrational acts by people in despair, individually, or as nations, willing to do anything to derail the juggernaut we are told is carrying us, inevitably, to destruction.

The problem we're confronted with today is that our inventors of consensus do not understand that they can only succeed if their system of beliefs is irrational.

And the work of the few who do, is biased by their ideological beliefs — e.g., advocating irrational policies to justify mandating and subsidising renewable energy and imposing carbon pricing schemes.

Conservatives have been variously pathologized as unethical, antisocial, and irrational simply because they don't share beliefs that seem self - evident to liberals.

Wouldn't it be better to do the rational analysis first, and then secondly consider the constraints that are caused by politics, public opinion, public paranoia about nuclear power and catastrophic climate change and irrational beliefs about what is best for the environment?

Professor Steve Jones was a guest on Radio 3 Essential Classics last week blathering on about the purity of science compared to the irrational beliefs of climate sceptics etc., and those e-mails just show he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.

A bit of radiation does you good, certainly no har, up to 400 tims theevcuation evels that we can prove epidemiologically, but irrational fear and old hypothese that are just wrong keeps disproven beliefs as the basis for regulation and officials in hazmat suits waving meters where in radiation levels people all around the world live out normal lives in.

Romeo and Juliet was originally written as satire to represent everything that's wrong with young love and how irrational romantic beliefs can make you do stupid shit like drink poison because your parents don't like some girl's parents.

Romeo and Juliet was originally written as satire to represent everything that's wrong with young love and how irrational romantic beliefs can make you do stupid s — like drink poison because your parents don't like some girl's parents.