Conditioning
For suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would have been quite different. (For one thing, I probably wouldn’t believe that I was born in Michigan.) The same goes for the pluralist. Pluralism isn’t and hasn’t been widely popular in the world at large; if the pluralist had been born in Madagascar, or medieval France, he probably wouldn’t have been a pluralist. Does it follow that he shouldn’t be a pluralist or that his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief producing process? I doubt it. (Alvin Plantinga, A Defense of Religious Exclusivism)
Hat tip: Wes Baker
See also: Cornelius Van Til’s Why I Believe in God
I gotta have my orange juice. 
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