"Hawke" wrote in message ...
On 7/12/2012 11:41 AM, George Plimpton wrote:
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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.


I'm sorry you don't know it, but every time someone tries to teach
traditional ways of thinking they are rejecting critical thinking. When you
teach children to follow customs, tradition, and religious tenets, then you
are not teaching them to think critically. You are teaching them to accept
what is passed on to them and to not question it. That is done in Texas all
over the place just like it's done in Madrassas in the Middle East. They
teach children to accept and believe not to think critically. That is what
religious people do. They do this all over Texas. So don't bull**** us,
okay. People in Texas that have positions in education teach religion over
critical thinking all the time. If you don't believe that then you've never
been to Texas.

Hawke

The problem is that the truth can become a casualty of someone's "critical
thinking". If the truth doesn't fit someone's world view then they can
"think critically" and decide the truth isn't the truth. But then they fail
at thinking critically about how what they think isn't true became accepted
by the people of that day as the truth.

Here's an experiment since you think things in the Bible were made up and
accepted as truth. Write something condemning acts of terrorism and murder
of non=Muslims by Muslims, claim it was written by Mohammed and lost for all
these years. Get the Muslims to accept these writings of yours as being
written by Mohammad and no more Muslim terrorists!

Basically, critical thinking allows anyone to believe what they want to
believe, the truth becomes a matter of opinion.

RogerN