, fine, but I guarantee you that you have
other irrational beliefs....
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.
Not exact matches
I detest their delusional
belief system, perhaps, and I fear the damage to our freedom based the lunacy that they try to force onto
other people, but there is nothing
irrational about it.
I do care if those
irrational beliefs are used to discriminate against
others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He likens the «climate change» issue to some of the
other «
irrational beliefs» promoted through history «by famous thinkers and adopted by loyal disciples.»
Clients are often taught how to more effectively relax, how to fashion realistic goals from their own needs and desires, how to journal to promote emotional growth, how to compartmentalize grief, how to confront and replace automatic
irrational beliefs, how to use autosuggestion for shifting emotions, how to manage situational cues to influence their emotional states, and many
other self - management strategies.
Accordingly to metacognitive theories,
other authors have recently developed the
Belief About Emotions Questionnaire (BAEQ; Manser et al., 2012), designed to measure and evaluate seven types of
beliefs about emotions: «overwhelming and uncontrollable»; «shameful»; «
irrational»; «invalid and meaningless»; «useless»; «damaging»; and «contagious».
Psychotic depression disorder — depression alongside hallucinations,
irrational beliefs or
other delusions