Courage? How else would you define letting go of the familiar? What other quality sums up changing your cosy beliefs to the harsh light of Crit-think? We all accept certain values as the standards in our life, based on previous understanding. Then, if you remain true to the three elements and discover you are on a fool`s journey, do you compromise, or take a deep breath and realign your thinking? I doubt anyone can take the plunge without counting the cost of lost sureties, lost opportunities, possibly lost friends. So it boils down to whether CT is king, or do you accommodate the new without accepting the new boundaries? Whether the transition is something relatively mundane, or life-shaking like moving from religious to atheistic (or vice versa), rejecting scientific, political, tribal, even domestic ties in the face of new evidence, I`d say it took courage.
I'm glad you said "or vice versa" because it does take courage in many cases to become a Christian after a lifetime of atheism and so-called critical thinking, which was my situation. I was often criticized for being "too analytical" about other people's opinions and beliefs, especially in a time when New Age "spiritualities" were being tried out by everybody. When I started to become interested in Christianity my friends were not pleased with me, to say the least. They acted worried, solicitous for my health and mental condition, energized to provide me with good anti-Christian innoculating reading matter, gnosticism and William James for instance. Except for one diehard friend, and of course my family, I lost all my friends from my pre-Christian days when I turned to Christ. I tried to reconnect with some old friends when I discovered their websites a couple years ago and it was a nice reunion for a short period, but soon became apparent we had nothing in common any more.
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