″ A few months later he told me he’d converted. Last I heard they had moved to Utah. ”
This seems more easily explainable as a Crony Belief. The new belief was very valuable and useful to him, therefore it was adopted as true.
Its value as an epistemic belief plummeted as its value as a crony belief soared since the existence or non-existence of god doesn’t have value to people’s everyday lives (in the way that an armed robber or cancer diagnosis does).
″ A few months later he told me he’d converted. Last I heard they had moved to Utah. ”
This seems more easily explainable as a Crony Belief. The new belief was very valuable and useful to him, therefore it was adopted as true.
Its value as an epistemic belief plummeted as its value as a crony belief soared since the existence or non-existence of god doesn’t have value to people’s everyday lives (in the way that an armed robber or cancer diagnosis does).