"Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?" — Alvin Plantinga
The point being that one cannot say all claims about religions are historically conditioned except the one being made now. Truth-claims are hard to sort but we must do so rather than giving up.
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