(July 13, 2016 at 12:37 pm)SteveII Wrote:(July 13, 2016 at 3:35 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Your figures are a charade.
If you are replying to me, I don't remember using numbers. However, my point was that if we use adult conversions as a measure, we see that evangelical protestant Christianity seems to be the most compelling of the "loads of different theistic religions" that Rob observed. If this conversion rate comparison was true for the past 2000 years (which it could be argued that, on average, it was) that indicates that Christianity is more compelling than other religions.
Does compelling = true? No, not necessarily. But I think it is reasonable to conclude that adult conversions should be taken as a "vote" on the truth claims of any religion.
If you look at the leaving rate for Evangelicals, it's not exactly good compared to other groups.
As for Evangelicals having the largest number of adherents in America, all this reveals is the current trend in America. Says nothing about the future or about the world overall.
Furthermore, even among Evangelicals, there are various denominations and disagreements on doctrines of Christianity. So there's alot of things being muddied here when putting all these subgroups into one bigger group and doing the stats on that one group.
And note also the entering rate for the unaffiliated group compared to the leaving rate. This particular group has "more compelling stats" than any of the other groups, including Christian groups.