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Originally Posted by Low Key
True or false: there is a chance that every religion could be right.
This means that, in this one universe (no parallel universes allowed), all religions in the history of mankind are compatible with each other, there is no belief in one that is mutually exclusive of another.
True or false: there is a chance that every religion could be wrong.
Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Again, same rules apply, this universe only, religions known to mankind at this point only apply, no guessing on what might happen in the future.
Finally, in your opinion, true or false: the chance that any one random person's religion might be right is approximately equal to the chance that same person assigns to other religions being right.
In other words, a devout Christian might have chosen the correct religion, the most accurate, however you want to state it, and as such, they believe the chance of other religions being correct is some value X. In fact, that value X is actually the chance that they picked the right religion, or in most cases was born to the right religion. (Again, "right" meaning it is accurate and factually correct from an objective point of view, regardless of our current inability to prove it as such)
I'll have a go at it.
1) Assuming all religious beliefs are accurate as they are now (that is, if the Christian God exists, current Christians "have it right" when it comes to what they believe, if the Muslim God exists, current Muslims "have it right", etc.) then, false. Clearly some religions claim they're exclusively right.
2) True. There's a chance all religions could be wrong.
3) Basically false, although it depends on your definition of "approximately" I guess. Some religions are vague enough or old enough that they're essentially unfalsifiable (such as Christianity or Hinduism) whereas others are new enough that the foundations of them are still testable and clearly bull**** (such as Scientology). This would cause me to put them in different categories of how likely they are to be true or false.
I can't disprove that Jesus rose from the dead. I don't think he did and I don't think it's my job as a non-believer to prove my non-belief, but if I set out to provide tangible proof that Christianity (or Islam, or Hinduism, etc.) was, without a doubt, false,it would be an extremely difficult and likely impossible task.
If you asked me to disprove Scientology, I could do so with ease to the satisfaction of nearly all readers.