 In fact, at one point he goes even further. Because there exists at present no neutral ground for adjudicating religious epistemic conflicts, it is not only the case, Alston argues, that exclusivists are justified (rational) in continuing to consider their own perspective superior. Since we do not even know in most cases what a non-circular reason for demonstrating superiority would look like, the “only rational course” for exclusivists “is to sit tight” with the beliefs “which [have] served so well in guiding [their] activity in the world.” Or, to generalize this point, Alston speaks for those who maintain that, given the absence of common ground for adjudicating disputes concerning self-consistent religious perspectives, it is not rational for exclusivists to stop maintaining that their system is superior (Alston 1988,  444).[5]