Comment on My Kind of Moral Responsibility

Wed, 04 May 2016 13:59:19 GMT

Consider the following proposition: For each existing religion, one can easily set out evidence of its wrongness that would (1) be very convincing to the majority of people who are not already positively disposed towards that religion and (2) be good reasoning in the abstract; if we combine these, we get a strong argument that no existing religion is close to the truth, but this argument will not convince most people because most people are adherents of some religion or other, and it is extremely difficult for adherents of any religion to appreciate the strength of arguments against that religion.

It seems to me that that proposition may very well be true, and that if it is true then it's correct (aside from the fact that "proofs" is too ambitious a word) to say both that it's difficult to convince people that all existing religions are wrong, and that the proofs of that fact are not hard to verify.

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