Re: Private for Raj
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?
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