The findings for social science at once surprise me and don't at all. Anthropology and sociology in particular seem prone to encouraging its students to realize that there are different cultures (hence different religions) out there, which on the one hand would lead to less religiosity (if as many people believe in Krishna as believe in YHWH, that undermines YHWH's credibility), but on the other hand would lead to some specific individuals finding a faith more suited to their personal beliefs (a lifelong Christian becoming Shinto, for instance). I suppose it does make sense that the former shift in religiosity would have a greater impact on the group as a whole than the latter shift.
By the way, you misspelled "mankind" (somewhat unfortunately).
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The findings for social science at once surprise me and don't at all. Anthropology and sociology in particular seem prone to encouraging its students to realize that there are different cultures (hence different religions) out there, which on the one hand would lead to less religiosity (if as many people believe in Krishna as believe in YHWH, that undermines YHWH's credibility), but on the other hand would lead to some specific individuals finding a faith more suited to their personal beliefs (a lifelong Christian becoming Shinto, for instance). I suppose it does make sense that the former shift in religiosity would have a greater impact on the group as a whole than the latter shift.
By the way, you misspelled "mankind" (somewhat unfortunately).