(July 27, 2015 at 2:47 am)robvalue Wrote: A theist on here did pretty much admit she is in her religion simply because she was raised in it. She was honest enough to admit she would probably be a Jew if raised Jewish. Not many theists can be that honest. For every 100 theists who think they would end up in their current religion regardless of the kind of indoctrination they receive, probably 70%+ would be wrong.
This didn't seem to bother her at all though, she was still convinced she is right while admitting it's also an accident of birth.
People are either deluded into thinking they'd have found their own religion regardless (statistically they wouldn't) or that it just happens to be the right one anyway (handy).
The accident of birth also applies to things like nationalism. Many people believe that their nation is the best. This also often applies to the local sports teams. These are all forms of ethnocentrism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
