"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them".
This historical quirk coincides with a more hard-headed belief that the Irish have the measure of how Wales play.
He talked about the scourge of AIDS and "Afro-pessimism," or the wrong-headed belief that investment in Africa was a losing game.
He has to believe this because if he doesn't, if he cannot fight with the encouragement of clear-headed belief, and from the first bell, it is plain enough that he will be destroyed.
That, Daniel Handler, author of the best-selling Lemony Snicket series, told me recently in an interview, results from a "wrong-headed belief that the more misery there is, the more quality there is, that the most lurid, unvarnished stories are closest to the truth".
The energy sector, in contrast, is 8% overvalued reflecting investors' implicit but wrong-headed belief that oil prices will remain at today's high levels after the Iraq conflict has been resolved.
The vulgarities are heaped on top of the hard-headed belief of many men and women that a woman just doesn't have the right stuff to be the nation's commander in chief.
Ceulemans earned Belgium a draw, cancelling out a rare Ray Wilkins goal - he only scored three times in 84 appearances for his country - to give the Red Devils belief heading into their other group games against Spain and Italy.
The try from Burroughs though, his first at senior level, looked to give Jersey fresh belief heading in at half-time, coming from a quickly taken line-out which caught the visitors off guard.
On Tuesday the Herald Tribune ran a first-page story headed: "FIVE HISS JURORS EXPRESS BELIEF KAUFMAN WAS BiASED FOR DEFENSE".
While I do think LaVey's work is an excellent explication of the human animal, and my own social and political proclivities are aligned with that of the Satanic Temple, after years of atheism, I was slowly but surely headed towards theism, or the belief that there is a transcendental reality and that gods do exist.
