Sentences with phrase «of irrational belief»

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.

While I agree, I'd offer that more important to the sustainability of religion is the promise of immortality (for the small price of irrational belief).

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

A «Belief Blog» is an ideal forum for the illumination of irrational beliefs and the lies of Christianity's champions.

Illustrators Ireland present a wonderful new group exhibition examining the world of irrational beliefs featuring works from 40 leading Illustrators, including PJ Lynch, Steve Simpson and Children's Laureate Niamh Sharkey,

A common element of such therapies is a reduced emphasis on CBT's traditional reliance on the systematic «challenging» of irrational beliefs (Longmore 2007).

J. Ryan Fuller: Really, the beginning, in the mid-50's when he started off with a much larger number of irrational beliefs and then changing over time, incorporating more of an emphasis on behavior and things like that.

In fact, if you look at his original list of irrational beliefs, well, I think he called them irrational ideas in those days, some of them wouldn't pass muster as irrational beliefs now, more like, sort of, distorted influences.

Several practitioners have worked to integrate CBT into the Psychodramatic model by highlighting the ways CBT enhances psychodrama exercises (Boury, Treadwell, & Kumar, 2001, Treadwell, Kumar, & Wright 2004), adapting psychodrama to include the exploration of irrational beliefs (Kipper, 2002), and considering the way in which psychodrama could be considered a form of CBT (Baim, 2007; Fisher, 2007; Treadwell, Travaglini, Reisch, & Kumar, 2011; Wilson, 2009).

Not exact matches

«He has nothing but phony and nonspecific evidence to support his irrational belief, which runs contrary to the stunning number of verifiable counterfactuals.»

This person is obviously suffering from mental illness and yet this irrational respect that is given to «religious faith» blinds CNN to the point where they post this as «Belief» instead of on the medical page where it belongs.

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?

the entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

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?

considering that theological beliefs are irrational (that is, they obtain despite a lack of evidence) why hold specific religious / theological views at all?

No surprise that already fully indoctrinated members of the priesthood, like Lemaître and Jaki, should pursue the study of science for the express purpose of trying to promote a semblance of consistency between their irrational beliefs and the realities of science.

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.

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.

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.

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 form.

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.

Worse still, these beliefs are irrational, just a fiction of blind conviction.

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.

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.

If you cling to the irrational belief that it's the literal word of a diety, and you read it and actually decide you want to follow it, be self - aware enough to understand when rational people question your morality and intelligence.

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..

Those leaders of the USSR and China killed their citizens for an IRRATIONAL belief that was POLITICALLY based.

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.

The entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

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.

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.

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.

Good point... I have always been annoyed by the religious hijacking of the word «truth» to help provide a false buttress for irrational beliefs.

Finally, the entire planet is affected by the irrational belief systems of the various mainstream religions.

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

Another risk is biblicism, a kind of absolutization of the authority of the Bible that leads to irrational beliefs and actions.

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.

No amount of patient explanation will help rational people to adopt irrational beliefs.

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!

Arguments like the one you made only reinforce their belief that people of faith are irrational and delusional.

White supremacists have their websites and blogs where they vent all of their irrational and misplaced hatred, and atheists have the CNN Belief Blog.

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