10-Mar-2012, 12:14 PM
If you suppose the hypothesis of this Weltanschaung theory, then it would be more interesting to figure out the convictions that undergird the beliefs of the religious in how they accept their religions, and try to formulate evidence that they are unsound. But that's not likely to work, because most people, when confronted with evidence that their foundational assumptions about the world and human nature are wrong, will be put into a kind of cognitive dissonance that is much easier to resolve through ceding the argument but keeping the beliefs, or attacking the evidence against those beliefs, than by replacing those beliefs with a different set. The way to erode superstition and faith of that nature is not to turn the hardened adults, but to permeate the public discourse enough such that young people will be able to find and hear your opinion early enough so that they are amenable to listen to it. The development of secular society have disconnected many people from the traditions of their parents and caused a general loss of faith over the past generations, which is probably why many people of faith are so frightened of it and try to subvert it in the USA.