Kevin Gowen wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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?
>
> Well, you said "all evidence to the contrary". To what were you
> referring?

I was referring in general terms to one of the things that faith is intended
to stand up against.