The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
Finding beauty in the dissonance
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so...
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?