Yes, exactly. Telling someone that the experiences which have convinced them of their religious beliefs aren’t actually strong evidence for those beliefs requires explaining at minimum* Occam’s Razor and Bayesian statistics.
Empirically many people deconvert for reasons that have nothing to do with Bayesianism. Indeed most former theists I know don’t even know what Bayesianism is. If this is what it would take then almost no one would ever deconvert. People can deconvert for many different reasons. Occam’s Razor or Bayesianism can be reasons, but there are a lot of other reasons that people deconvert, such as realizing that their holy texts are full of contradictions, or deciding the only reasonable interpretations of the texts are literalist ones which contradict the physical evidence.
That’s all true. My statement was intended to apply only to those people who have had “religious experiences” and are convinced because of those. In general, people become convinced of religious beliefs for a variety of reasons, and similarly can become unconvinced for a variety of reasons.
Empirically many people deconvert for reasons that have nothing to do with Bayesianism. Indeed most former theists I know don’t even know what Bayesianism is. If this is what it would take then almost no one would ever deconvert. People can deconvert for many different reasons. Occam’s Razor or Bayesianism can be reasons, but there are a lot of other reasons that people deconvert, such as realizing that their holy texts are full of contradictions, or deciding the only reasonable interpretations of the texts are literalist ones which contradict the physical evidence.
That’s all true. My statement was intended to apply only to those people who have had “religious experiences” and are convinced because of those. In general, people become convinced of religious beliefs for a variety of reasons, and similarly can become unconvinced for a variety of reasons.