ABSTRACT
It has been one of the scandals of the philosophy of religion that foundationalism in epistemology has been thought, and still is thought, to be the only philosophical perspective capable of doing justice to the nature of religious belief. Foundationalism is the view that a belief is a rational belief only if it is related, in appropriate ways, to a set of propositions which constitute the foundations of what we believe. It assumes, from the outset, that belief in God is not among these foundational propositions. Most philosophers would say that philosophers of religion and believers today have less excuse than the primitives for their animistic practices. It is said that religion is a refuge for those who, because of weakness of intellect or character, are unable to confront the stern realities of the world. The objective, mature, strong attitude is to hold beliefs solely on the basis of evidence.
