I Kant Believe It!!

It was interesting to learn that Kant, a critical thinker and true skeptic,could still manage to put aside all rationality to believe in the religiousmaxims he had learned since he was a child. This is truly insightful into thepower of religion and can be related to the transmission of memes that Dawkinsspeaks of. The Adam Sandler movie, the Water Boy seems to strike me as a validexample of this. Here is this man, who has only ever been educated by his motherand has clearly been misguided on much of the information that she transmitted.On a broader scale, I can think back to my Christian elementary school and theindoctrination that occurs from day one. You are not allowed to disbelieve, toquestion, to instigate debate or discussion, in essence, critical thinking wasessentially forbidden. Perhaps this is an exaggeration of my memory but I recallit being taboo to ask too many leading questions about the contradictoryelements of the bible. We were not allowed to pick and choose what we wanted tobelieve, it was an all or nothing kind of deal.