It’s common knowledge now that people have non-rational, psychological grounds for believing and disbelieving things. A person may be an atheist, for example, without ever looking into the truth or falsity of faith, but simply because his or her father was a religious hypocrite who alienated the family from God as much as from himself. Such psychological factors lie behind the ostensible reasons they give for believing a particular thing and have nothing whatever to do with the beliefs being objectively