Assertion: religion | /r/HasProperty | justified
Facets:
value: according to evidentialism
type: OTHER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Those conditions are widely assumed to include an evidentialist requirement that faith is justified only if the truth of its cognitive content is adequately supported by the available evidence.
text: Evidentialism implies that full religious belief is justified only if there is conclusive evidence for it.
text: This raises the question, how can we adjudicate between an epistemological thesis which might otherwise be believed and a religious belief which that thesis implies is unjustified?
text: Religion has often been the justification of and motivation for war.
text: Indeed many religious beliefs defy logic and seem to be unreasonable.
text: If such faith is to be justified, its cognitive content will (on realist assumptions) have to cohere with our best evidence-based theories about the real world.
text: Evidentialism implies that no full religious belief (i.e., a religious belief held with full confidence) is justified unless there is conclusive evidence for it, or it is self-evident.
text: If, according to evidentialism, full or even partial religious beliefs are unjustified, then, given the hegemony of evidentialism there is an overriding reason to reject those beliefs.