On 7/13/2012 1:47 PM, Richard wrote:
On 7/13/2012 12:55 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 7/12/2012 11:36 PM, Richard wrote:
On 7/12/2012 1:41 PM, George Plimpton wrote:

Irrelevant. A rational person still *cannot* believe that Texas
Republicans oppose critical thinking ability. What they oppose is the
left-wing teachers' unions and "educrats" trying to sneak in
anti-western values under a fake name. Every right thinking person
opposes that.


That's not what he means, George.

By "critical thinking" he means he thinks he can be critical of what
YOU think...

At least that's what his actions say.


In religious settings they teach the children the doctrine of the
church, not how to think critically or to question what they are being
taught. Do you dispute that? I was raised in a Christian home and went
to Sunday school and was confirmed. They didn't teach us to question
what they were telling us. They told us to believe what they told us was
the word of god and was infallibly true. My friends in Catholic schools
were learning the same things there.

Critical thinking is just about as far away from the way they teach in
religious setting as you can get. It's no surprise that in places that
are dominated by very religious people that they teach their students to
accept religious dogma. They don't teach them to question it or to think
critically. If you can prove that is not true I'd like to see you try.

Hawke


Congratulations, you have discovered the difference between proof and
faith.



But the question to you was can you show that religious people teach
their students to believe in the religious teachings and not to question
them, or do they teach their students to challenge the teachings and
think critically about them? I've never seen that done. That's why I
challenge you to show me some place where the religious institutions
don't teach dogma and don't discourage any challenges to what is being
taught as is comes from god. If that exists anywhere I don't know of it.
Do you?

Hawke