Re: Private for Raj
Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> No, there are far too many adult converts to various religions.
>>
>> Cites, please.
>
> Cites to what?
>
>> I doubt there is more than a trivial percentage of
>> religious adherents being adult converts, unless you are counting
>> intramural conversions like between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
>
> That doesn't even matter. He said, "You have to be fed that nonsense
> by your parents and teachers in order to actually believe it" Thus, I
> only need to find one person on the planet who believes without
> having been "fed" by parents and teachers.
>
> I hope you'll make a better real-life lawyer than internet lawyer.
>
>>> By the way, are all religions nonsense, or just Christianity? I'm
>>> trying to figure out why it isolated for ridicule. Is Islam or
>>> Hinduism more empirical?
>>>
>> All are ridiculous. The only time I've gotten to the point of
>> actually screaming at someone over religion was at a Hindu trying to
>> justify torching Moslems on the basis that their set of fairy tales
>> gave them more right to build a temple on a patch of dirt than
>> Islamic fairy tales gave them to build a temple on the very same
>> patch of dirt.
>
> How is atheism any less based on faith and therefore any less
> ridiculous?
Ummm, let's see, because nobody has stressed to me the how important it is
to believe it in the face of all evidence to the contrary...
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