Critical thinking requires our ability to be metacognitive - thinking about our thinking. Can you step back and evaluate your own thoughts and ideas?
Can you see past your opinions and perceptions in order to gain perspective or are your opinions part of your identity?
In my opinion, the ability to think critically about our beliefs and ideas is incredibly important today because there is so much information flooding our minds.......much of it is propaganda used to support the beliefs of our group/tribe.
Can you evaluate information that seems to support your beliefs? QAnon comes to mind.....
It seems to support positive beliefs about Trump - can you evaluate it from a neutral position?
Is it important to do so?
IMO our tribe, Christianity, wants us to accept the teachings of our specific brand (denomination) without question. This mentality makes it difficult for us to evaluted secular information that seems to support our beliefs - ‘Trump is anti-abortion so he must be the right guy’ - ‘i did the right thing by voting for Trump so he must be the right guy no matter what’ therefore, ‘any criticism of Trump is a personal attack on my group and on me’. This is a dangerous mindset. It allow us to turn off our minds and i believe it can lead to disastrous results for our country and our spirituality. The devil operates in the shadows of our minds....conspiracy theories, propaganda, identity with opinion....
1. Do you value critical thinking?
2. Are you able to evaluate information that seems to support your worldview?
3. Is faith the same as doubling down on your ideas about God? Or, is faith allowing events to unfold, with the hope that God will make everything right?
Faith is the substance of and it's not blind at all.
I would say that people who don't like Trump are very shallow people who's opinions are clouded some what in the way a 5yo would be, they have lived very sheltered lives and just point to injustice blindly, boo hoo type crap, but it's people like this that create most of the problems, just like the greenies they are like watermelons green on the outside and communist red on the inside and easy brainwashed by nonsense.
We have people in Australia that look at the percentage of blacks in jail is higher than whites and they think such is due to racism, they stumble about like a drunk thinking how can that be, it must be racism !
But they have no idea at all what they are talking about, never got about the land much or never had to of dealt with such issues and just come out with a blinded bigoted opinion that you must not challenged for fear of such Nazi types unfounded off with the pixie opinions that make them feel bad. and I am like come and live in this community for 6 months and you will get a dose of reality. I see it with new cops to the area, boy they have all the answers you know, but within 3 months reality sinks in and they find out that they truly had no idea at all.
It's like labours who came and worked for me and started saying what they thought I should do, they thought why don't you just do this or that, well fact is I know much more about such things in depth then they ever will, they are just off with the pixies with shallow opinions, oh they sound ok and sure I understand what they are on about, but it's like talking to a 5yo and they don't understand the big picture, it's like look if I did that I would turn over more $ but my Net $ would be less and end up bankrupt.
Look at the USA it is in debt $20 trillion and you know what, who is the people that are not bothered about such, that's your Democrats and not to mention the far right wing rich criminals who are just milking the system for what they can get out of it, like all morons do.
It should of never got to that debt ever it's insane.
What if they call the chips in like the USA did to Germany in the 1920's just watch inflation kick in and you may end up with 200% inflation like Germany did.
People are just so ignorant of such things that they don't have a clue about what it is that they are truly getting into. foolish people think that they can come the heavy with the banks, no you won't you the nigger and they own your ass, that's what debt is you are enslaved to such.
The USA should not be in debt at all.