Abstract

ACOSTA MUNOZ, Manolo. Critical thinking and religious beliefs. Sophia [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.209-237. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n24.2018.06.

The present article proposes to analyze the need to apply the critical thought at the moment of assuming a religious belief. Because the religious prescripts induce in the believer concrete behaviors, it is necessary to reflect critically in the consequences of assuming a belief in general and a religious belief in particular, to expire with this intention it becomes indispensable to consider the fundamental beginning that they sustain to the critical thought and to the contemporary critical pedagogics. A groundless or assumed way belief acritical is a source of subjectivism, of dogmatism and of fanaticism that must be avoided. There is checked briefly the function of the religious leaders and of the philosophy of the religion in the education of the beliefs, and, there decides the incidence of the critical thought in the religious beliefs in this sense is analyzed how certain religious leaders manipulate its followers by means of fanciful interpretations of the sacred books, often motivated by the Protestant prescript of the free interpretation of the Bible suggested with Lutero from the Renaissance epoch. It values the dialogue that must exist between reason and faith; he promotes the critical thought as a mechanism to educate in the religious faith. To conclude, the work proposes rules and alternatives for the comprehension of the religious beliefs. It is a bibliographical and documentary investigation that like operational strategy he contributed to the observation and the tidy and systematical reflection of the investigated topic, it is helped in the deductive - inductive, inductive - deductive methods and in the methods phenomenological hermeneutically.

Keywords : Critical thinking; religious beliefs; philosophy; religion; manipulation.

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