Discussion
According to William James, religious beliefs are justified because they are :
Answer: A
The key gives grounded in experience and verifiable.
In The Varieties of Religious Experience James grounds religion in personal religious experience rather than in theology or reason. As a pragmatist he holds that beliefs are verified by their consequences in life: a religious belief is justified if it works, producing fruits such as inner peace, moral energy and a more meaningful life.
He explicitly rejected the attempt to ground religion in abstract reasoning or deduction from the idea of God, which rules out the two options based on reason.
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