Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 29, 2025, 05:52 AMCritical thinking isn't just 'deduced' it requires breaking social conditioning.
I think this is true in most cases, unless you start to think criitically before social conditioning has had time to set in. My first experience came in Sunday School, when claims in the Bible didn't make sense to me. In fact, the whole idea that the Bible was the Word of God didn't seem plausible. I couldn't see why the various authors of each chapter were any different than regular writers. Anybody could claim that God spoke to them, but if you say that God speaks to you, generally people think you are crazy.
So anyhow, I started arguing with my Sunday School teacher about stories in the Bible I found suspicious. Later in life I realized most people don't bother questioning the Bible, they accept it as true on faith. Perhaps because if they do question it while young their parents punish them. My parents weren't very religious and from different faiths. They didn't try to make me accept the stories as God's revealed Truth.
Religion is probably the main thing which destroys critical thinking early in life. Once it's been squashed, it's hard to get back.
RE