Kevin Gowen wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> What is the evidence to the contrary? I was not aware that there were
> empirical data regarding the existence of a diety or lack thereof. Was
> it on "Science Friday"?

Where did I say there is empirical evidence to the contrary?