RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 17, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(June 17, 2016 at 1:30 pm)madog Wrote:(June 17, 2016 at 1:15 pm)SteveII Wrote: People believe the truth claims of the religion.
I think this is where religion really fails .... People are indoctrinated to believe before they can weigh the facts for themselves .... Religion, and belief in Father Christmas are similar, but the Father Christmas claims can easily be dismissed as Woo as there is no loss of eternal reward or punishment attached to questioning the fallacy ....
It would be interesting to see how many Christians would still be Christians if no child was indoctrinated through out childhood .... Oh wait that experiment has been run in non Christian households such as Hindu's, Muslims, etc. etc .... does that not tell you something empirical?
I posted this a couple of months ago in another thread:
Okay, say we take the US statistic of 85% of Christians were born into a Christian home. You are claiming that these people only stay because of the "brainwashing" they received as children. The 15% adult conversions are exceptions...or (319 million US population x 70.6% Christians = 225 million x 85% born into Christian homes) = 191 million people. And this is in the wealthiest country with vast amounts of information available to anyone with access to a computer (to say nothing about the education system's attempt to undermine faith).
I don't think the numbers support your conclusion.
