A concentration on cultural diversity, let alone specifically religious diversity, leads quickly to a concentration on the environmental influences on human beings which can be many and various. The cognitive science of religion claims to be truly scientific and to be based on empirical evidence gained through proper scientific method, particularly in the fields of psychology and anthropology. It conducts cross-cultural research and its findings are intended to apply across cultures. A relativism that is all too common nowadays, which sees people as sealed in separate social compartments, each with their own separate conceptual schemes and ways of thought. The right to religious freedom is a recognition of the fact that we all, as human beings, have to come to terms with our nature, and decide whether to follow and fulfil it, or to control and restrain it. After all, such freedom includes the freedom to deny all purported religious truth as well as to assert it.