COMMENTARY: Test your beliefs by seeking out other viewpoints
By Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, Los Angeles Times (TNS) The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard famously observed that if everyone is a Lutheran then no one is a Lutheran. What he meant is that if you’re born into a culture in which everybody has a similar worldview, you don’t have an opportunity to develop genuine belief because your convictions are not subject to scrutiny. Put another way,