RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 21, 2017 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2017 at 10:49 am by Mister Agenda.)
SteveII Wrote:Adult conversions is a good measure of how the population overall subjectively assesses the evidence for Christianity. If you have a different theory that would explain the effect, please provide.
A good measure of how many people accept a claim is not a good measure of whether the claim is true, if it were, ad populum would not be a fallacy. It is clear that my care is only whether the claim is actually true or not, and in that respect I'm fairly representative of the skeptical side of this forum, I think. So what is the relevancy of a good measure of how the population overall subjectively assesses the evidence? Once upon a time the population subjectively assessed the evidence for a flat earth as convincing, but you want me to buy Christianity's capture of a third of the population as evidence that their supernatural claims are correct?
As far as a different theory that would explain the effect, how about their missionary work in impoverished countries already rife with superstition is paying off? All they have to do is persuade the locals to accept their supernatural beliefs in addition to or instead of the ones they already have. It's not like Christianity is converting millions of scientists every day. That would certainly be intriguing. Converting people who will attend church for food and already believe witches are responsible for bad weather, on the other hand, is not that impressive. The Muslims are right behind you on that count.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.