In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus

[The Architect Of Fate]

Right, because you don't enough about the position you're advocating to use terms like socialization or enculturation. Instead, we get cultural inertia, whatever that means.

Wow. You are SO bad at this. I mean like steering-the-Titanic-into-the-iceberg level bad. Like Chamberlain-waving-that-bit-of-paper level bad. If being bad at this was an Olympic sport, you’d be a shoe-in for the gold. If it was a car, you’d be the Austin Allegro.

And I don’t expect you’ll get any better.

Boru

Johnny is perfect blend of clueless and irrational and arrogant and pretentious. Never have these qualities mingled so perfectly

[Sheldon]

That's irrelevant to my point, and I won't entertain your red herring. If you're so dense, or so biased, that you cannot see my point that two is an insufficient sample, you don't merit any more of my time on the matter.

You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.

Ah I see, but you and Belaqua can just pluck an unevidenced anecdote about two people, and no calculations are required. Comedy fucking gold again... I can't tell if you're trolling or not, I do hope for your sake you are.

[Belacqua]

That's irrelevant to my point, and I won't entertain your red herring. If you're so dense, or so biased, that you cannot see my point that two is an insufficient sample, you don't merit any more of my time on the matter.

Irrelevant? Not to anyone familiar with statistics, determining sample size is one of the first steps. You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.

Oh, I see what happened.

I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.

[Belacqua]

Well, he got the same answer from multiple users multiple times, and keeps asking the same fucking question.

Right, because you don't enough about the position you're advocating to use terms like socialization or enculturation. Instead, we get cultural inertia, whatever that means.

Cultural inertia is when the truck carrying the Michelangelo sculptures runs out of gas and coasts for a while.

[arewethereyet]

Irrelevant? Not to anyone familiar with statistics, determining sample size is one of the first steps. You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.

Oh, I see what happened.

I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.

You said you knew two people and that was representative of all of a certain group, you disingenuous fuck.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Cultural inertia is when the truck carrying the Michelangelo sculptures runs out of gas and coasts for a while.

Your ignorance is not a counter argument

[The Architect Of Fate]

Oh, I see what happened.

I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.

Yes Bel in your delusion mind that's just what happen unfortunately for you well don't live there

[Sheldon]

Irrelevant? Not to anyone familiar with statistics, determining sample size is one of the first steps. You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.

Oh, I see what happened.

I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.

That's not at all what happened, not even close. 

Belacqua Wrote:

I remember meeting a Christian couple here in Hiroshima -- he was from Hiroshima and she was from Nagasaki. They were both doctors who had spent the majority of their careers doing charity work. He was a founding member of an anti-nuke organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize. 

I asked them about their theological beliefs and they said they had never thought about it. It was the least important part of Christianity in their eyes.

So I suspect this is true of the majority. And it's the reason why trying to dissuade them from Christianity by asking for objective evidence of a prime mover -- or something like that -- is a niche hobby for people on line, but doesn't make much difference in their lives.

The inference is pretty clear, it was you who cited this anecdotal chat with two people, then made the assertion enlarged and underlined.

[Paleophyte]

Well it took 84 pages, but we finally got the most sensible possible answer.

Can you say "Kiss Ass?"  I know you can.

I could, but just at this moment "This dim bulb is using too small a sample size again" has a nice ring to it. I know, it's a bit of a mouthful, but seeing as how he'd only have needed to read the first few replies to have hit my similar response on the first page rather than a whole whiny 84 pages in.

[arewethereyet]

Can you say "Kiss Ass?"  I know you can.

I could, but just at this moment "This dim bulb is using too small a sample size again" has a nice ring to it. I know, it's a bit of a mouthful, but seeing as how he'd only have needed to read the first few replies to have hit my similar response on the first page rather than a whole whiny 84 pages in.

It's Valk, he is trying to kiss her ass.  I have a hunch that she would hurt him.  

 - She is probably the only member of staff he doesn't have on ignore.

If I had my 'drothers' it would be against the rules to put staff on ignore.  But it's not my playground, I just hang out here.