This, exactly.
It’s an entirely different way of approaching how to think. If you’re a rational thinker, you start from a neutral place and let facts and evidence guide you to a conclusion – even if it’s one you don’t prefer.
But if you’re a faith-based thinker, you start with the conclusion you want to reach (“there is a God,” or “Donald Trump is the best president who ever lived,” e.g.), and then you cherry-pick information you believe supports that conclusion. It doesn’t matter if it really does support the conclusion, only that you believe it does. Gotta have faith, y’know?