What Is An Open Mind?

There is an alarm­ing trend that I see more and more of. I have seen many attribute a very “closed” per­spec­tive to hav­ing an “open mind.” I feel it worth­while to dis­cuss a bet­ter def­i­n­i­tion to hav­ing an open mind and its impli­ca­tions, but first we must dis­cuss the mis­use of the phrase. What An Open Mind Is Not I see more and more peo­ple asso­ci­at­ing hav­ing this “open mind” to being lib­eral. Polit­i­cal and the­o­log­i­cal lib­er­al­ism then become the only true rep­re­sen­ta­tion of hav­ing an open mind. (read more...)