Sentences with phrase «irrational beliefs in»

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.

Religionists need to spend more time in therapy, working on their irrational beliefs in the supernatural.

If these topics are also based on irrational beliefs in mythical beings, yes.

When Christians or Muslims kill in the name of their religion, that is indeed IRRATIONAL and the result of the IRRATIONAL BELIEFS in «God».

There is an irrational belief in the corruption of the world by big money headed by a shadowy cabal of Jews, or at least some big money bankers with hooked noses if you can't quite bring yourself to attack Jews.

I'd say a lack of skepticism at this level is actually a sign of irrational belief in the ability to predict what can't be predicted.

Not exact matches

WLC especially provides solid, rational arguments for belief in theism and, in my opinion, demonstrates exceptionally well how belief in a God is not at all irrational.

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

AAthiest — how is your «societal obligation to curb irrational thinking» (your beliefs no God) different from a religious person's «societal obligation'to «proselytize» (their belief in God)?

An irrational atheist is a person that has not put rational thought behind their lack of belief in a god.

For myself my belief in God and most specifically in Yahweh and Jesus Christ His Son is honestly the purely irrational nature of both of their claims.

it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect.

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??

The irrational form of belief is found in animals as instinct.

Folks, note that Chad's statement, «it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect» is either stupidity or just more of him being intentionally obtuse (insufficient evidence = no belief = rational position).

You have to be willing to accept the illogical and irrational if you want to believe in God — it's a definitional requirement of belief in the transcendent.

Disturbances in our feelings, perceptions, and action arise, to a considerable degree, from irrational and invalid thoughts and beliefs such as these: (21)

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational forIn line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational forin man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational forin the past, but in an irrational forin an irrational form.

He is unable to give a datum for his belief in God — hence, belief seems irrational to reason.

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.

What I was trying to say is that believers and their beliefs, primarily Christians in the US, have an impact on lives of everyone in this country and that is why many non-believer feel not just a right but often a duty to challange what they see a irrational thinking.

(Yes, I realize that this belief is just as irrational and contra - evidence as a belief in God, but y» know what?

Belief in the unseen and not yet proven is not always irrational, you see.

If belief in the atom was ever seen as «irrational» then the person who was eventually proven right must have had a better sense of the atom's qualities and function..

@G there are beliefs a lot more irrational than «the fridge keeps cool» in everyone.

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..

Yes, it's harmless to nobody else until you act upon those beliefs and, unfortunately in this country, irrational beliefs are being enacted every day causing a lot of misery.

Apealing to an faith based and assumed to be infallibible «external moral source» is irrational and dangerous precisiely because there can be no determination of relative truth or compromise in a conflict between two faith based beliefs.

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.

========== 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.

Traditionally the notion of transcendence is related to belief in a world beyond, and it has some irrational and supernatural connotations.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

if belief in white apples on mars caused wars, impeded civil rights and medical progress, and aided the spread of disease (not to mention had the effect of making us mindless, irrational zombies), we'd be against that, too!

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.

Some characteristic features of madness are inflexibility, irritability and a belief in what is irrational.

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

«This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational»

This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational, and are a form of faith.

When those same people are clinging to their antiquated beliefs as justification for imposing irrational legislation that affects everyone else in the country, you bet we should care what other people believe.

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.

But then we get group or herd mentality, often driven by irrational religious beliefs, and murdering someone in another group becomes permissible, if not highly encouraged.

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.

You sir, are in serious need of a mental health professional to get you started on deprogramming your cult's irrational beliefs.

@CSmith, I would have thought that by definition theists were the irrational ones in the sense that their beliefs are not based on reason and evidence, but on faith.

SOGI laws impose this orthodoxy by punishing dissent, and by treating as irrational the beliefs that men and women are biologically rooted and made for each other in marriage.

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!»

He never has, and he has an irrational unwavering belief in himself.

It was the fear that there was no other life for me beyond the one that I had grown up in, the irrational belief that what being poor makes you feel is actually what you are.