WELCOME to the new Yahoo answers gameshow: 'Which conclusion is more rational!?' In this event contestants will choose from 3 possible choices of answers and put which one they think is more rational. Our group of scientists in the lab, who use a mathematical formula which compares evidence to outcome will come up with a conclusion that is positively more rational than the others and the first person to choose that letter wins the 10 points!
Here's the question:
Are people who hold irrational beliefs 'just dumb'.
A: Yes
B: not if they irrationally believe in the christian lord...faith (also believing something with our reason or irrationally) is very powerful.
C: No. You have to consider the circumstance like how they were raised, what the majority of their community believes, if they are lied to and given false rationality and if there is something at stake or believed to be at stake along with many more conditions that may make someone believe something irrationally.
2006-10-18 14:26:59 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Phoenix, I do not refuse the holocaust....Neither do i refuse it was christian beliefs that brought it on. Lunar landings....refuse them? WTF....STOP LISTENING TO YOUR BRAINWASHING PREIST! U R BEING TURNED AGAINST PEOPLE AND BRAINWAHSED! ... ;P..do it for...For HUMANITY!
2006-10-18 14:34:34 · update #1
C: No. You have to consider the circumstance like how they were raised, what the majority of their community believes, if they are lied to and given false rationality and if there is something at stake or believed to be at stake along with many more conditions that may make someone believe something irrationally.
2006-10-18 14:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C: No. You have to consider the circumstance like how they were raised, what the majority of their community believes, if they are lied to and given false rationality and if there is something at stake or believed to be at stake along with many more conditions that may make someone believe something irrationally.
2006-10-18 21:30:14 · answer #2 · answered by coach mora 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A. Yes, people who hold irrational beliefs are "just dumb".
That being said my belief in God, the Word, Jesus, and my faith that He will save me is not irrational it's history. It makes more sense to believe the truth than reject it as a skeptic.
Those who condemn the bible do so for the same reason people reject the holocaust and the moon landing, because despite the evidence and truth that these things occurred, they will refuse to believe them because they are members of the religion of Skepticism.
2006-10-18 21:32:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-18 21:36:19 · answer #4 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many geniuses who hold tenaciously onto irrational beliefs such as Darwin's Theory of Evolution. They are not "dumb", they are "just blind."
2006-10-18 21:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-10-18 21:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D: do you consider Steven Hawkin dumb?
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a
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c is your closest correct answer.
Irrational people can be smart, they are just being unreasonable and close minded.
2006-10-18 21:32:04 · answer #9 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your group of scientist are as stupid as you are.
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