What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?

[Pat Mustard]

We're wired to infer agency, not God. It took a long time to get from animism to monotheism.

There are millions of adult deconversions every year too. Being consistent with your argument, what does that indicate?

And most of the conversions Steve is talking about are from one sect of a religion to another, for example pretty much every conversion to evangelism in Brazil comes straight from catholicism, and in the US from mainline protestantism or catholicism.

Most of the "growth" in relugious numbers these days is from counting children too young to understand and from double or even triple counting people moving from one version of religion to another (for example, the rcc counts every person ever baptised by a priest as catholic for life. Hence Rome still considers me catholic).