Why don’t people in Christian societies ever ask God for a sign, get one, and turn into devout Muslims?
What hypothesis are you trying to refute with this question?
Edit: If it’s the rational conversion hypothesis, note that people also are more likely to rationally convert to positions they’ve been exposed to, even in domains far away from religion. If it’s the Catholicism is true hypothesis, this would not be surprising.
If it’s the rational conversion hypothesis, then while people are more likely to rationally convert to positions they’ve been exposed to, it doesn’t seem to me that they are enough more likely to explain the way conversions actually work. Furthermore, he supposedly got an experience directly from God. It wasn’t a rational conversion in the sense of having been deduced from things he already knew, it was a new experience, and I wouldn’t expect such things to be correlated with cultural context in the same way that ordinary rational conversions are. God can easily send Catholic experiences to Muslims and Muslim experiences to Catholics after all. Brain malfunctions, on the other hand, would be correlated with cultural context.
If it’s the Catholiicism is true hypothesis, then this example would be unsurprising, but other examples involving other religions would be even more surprising than they are now.
What hypothesis are you trying to refute with this question?
Edit: If it’s the rational conversion hypothesis, note that people also are more likely to rationally convert to positions they’ve been exposed to, even in domains far away from religion. If it’s the Catholicism is true hypothesis, this would not be surprising.
If it’s the rational conversion hypothesis, then while people are more likely to rationally convert to positions they’ve been exposed to, it doesn’t seem to me that they are enough more likely to explain the way conversions actually work. Furthermore, he supposedly got an experience directly from God. It wasn’t a rational conversion in the sense of having been deduced from things he already knew, it was a new experience, and I wouldn’t expect such things to be correlated with cultural context in the same way that ordinary rational conversions are. God can easily send Catholic experiences to Muslims and Muslim experiences to Catholics after all. Brain malfunctions, on the other hand, would be correlated with cultural context.
If it’s the Catholiicism is true hypothesis, then this example would be unsurprising, but other examples involving other religions would be even more surprising than they are now.