Most people acquire their beliefs through osmosis and observation, not investigation. We’d rather observe than derive. Raised in a society awash in certain ubiquitous beliefs, you tend to accept those beliefs without thinking. I think most people come to their faith in the same way they come to believe that not wearing a tie is “unprofessional office behaviour”
Another in the series of … Say Smart Things posts, extracted from an extremely well-tagged rant-in-progress by the mentioned-here-many-times author Peter Watts.
This has a lot in common with what I tend to refer to as Lawrence’s Law: “Most people’s opinions on any given subject are just the last thing they’ve heard about it”.
