Not just confirmation bias (in fact, not confirmation bias at all)

A comment to a comment on an NT Wright video which asserted that NTW's rationale was 'confirmation bias.'

No it is not 'just confirmation bias'. Confirmation usually proceeds on the basis of partial reference to observations or arguments.

Christians are OTOH, convinced as they consider their position (consider, not 'guess') on the basis of evidence that Yeshua is the creator incarnate. He explains why there is human sin/suffering, and death; why we live lives of teleological impulse but end in a box. Why we detect that all is not right with the world.

BTW, Christians, except maybe Calvinists, who are a bizarre sub-group) do not think that people are born with sin, but with an unavoidable propensity to sin; thus the church considers infants who die before they can be accountable are blessed with eternal life with their creator.

Other beliefs are deficient, not because they are devoid of specific belief, but because they fail to give a good explanation for the human dilemma, and our experience of a world that 'ain't right'.

Exilic religions place all in an impersonal ethereal 'spirituality) into which all are absorbed and loose their individuality.

Mimetic religions think the material world ( and some usually impersonal and mythically defined spirit entities) is all that is and we are part of it merged into a sort of Hegelian 'life but not spirit'.

Naturalistic 'religion' (modern atheist of both 'village' and philosophical varieties presume everything is dust in various arrangements and there is no real significance.

All these see the cosmos as all that is and we and our 'dilemma' are completely defined by and inescapably captured within it.

Covenantal religions, led by Christianity and Judaism see history as the real story of the external aseitic creator ( who showed himself present and active in the created world in the Genesis creation account, and finally, for Christians incarnated in Yeshua. Life here occurs in history, but is not fully defined by it or has it as the point of resolution.

There are a few covenantal type religions that are not really so: Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, are such; they have a superficial covenantal presentation, but lift the lid and they tend to be mimetic in character.

So, before you start your analysis of the religious landscape, consider the manner in which religions present their structure of reality, and their means of resolving the universal human dilemma of suffering and death.