Sentences with phrase «say irrational things»

Is it when they make you say irrational things?

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Participatory theonomy provides the antidote to the venomous moralism that vilifies and demonises «homosexuality is wrong because God said so»; «we've never allowed that sort of thing»; and other irrational sentiments unfit to print.

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.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

These things were said in desperation and irrational rage, but they were said nonetheless.

Id say a religious adult that goes to a magic house every sunday, with magic statues and candles and gives money to the magic basket is the most irrational thing i ever heard of.

It says a lot of things which are irrational and arbitrary that we laugh at in today's world.

«One thing science does tell us is that we can't understand it if we treat it as irrational [or] if we think of these people as a gathering of people with individual predispositions to violence,» says Clifford Stott, a social psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

This sudden, irrational rage is often referred to as «hanger» (a combo of hunger and anger) and experts say it is a very real thing.

That said, despite the substantial price supplement likely to be asked for it, the Paceman will still look like a bargain when compared with a Range Rover Evoque three - door, and in the grand scheme of things it's no more irrational a choice.

You are allowed to enjoy your console, but don't act like everyone who is saying things is just an irrational fan boy who prefers a different console.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

However, it's irrational to think that everything that greenies say is wrong, just because they are wrong about so many things.

Sometimes our kids can do or say things that are downright unacceptable and it's hard to understand the emotions that seem unwarranted or irrational.