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[Look What I Made]

How do you convince yourself you are right and everyone else is wrong? ya know the whole, if you were born to muslim parents you'd be muslim. what makes you convince yourself you picked the right one and everyone else is doomed?

[jimwalton]

I just keep examining the evidence. We all pursue the truth about things, and we do our best to (1) grant truth where it is obvious, (2) use evidence to arrive at "probably true" conclusions, and (3) to do the best we can to arrive at an explanation that best fits the facts.

Many people change religions as they examine the evidence, their thoughts, and their intuitions. We read the holy texts, study in school, weigh our thoughts, evaluate our experiences, and come to conclusions about what we consider to be true. Everyone does it. What you are saying (that I've convinced myself) just isn't an accurate representation of the process.