Abstract:
R.B. Braithwaite has suggested that "a religious belief is an intention to behave in a certain way (a moral belief) together with the entertainment of certain stories associated with the intention in the mind of the believer". R.B. Braithwaite, An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief (Cambridge, 1955), PP. 32-3.
Furthermore that it is
"the fact that entertainment in thought of ... Christian stories forms the context in which Christian resolutions are made which serves to distinguish Christian assertions from those made by adherents of another religion, or of no religion." Ibid, p. 26.
Now, if this account of religious belief is to be considered adequate, it will be necessary to take a closer look at what is involved in a believer of a particular faith entertaining a story. As is pointed out
