(July 5, 2018 at 10:54 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 5, 2018 at 9:30 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: That's utter garbage that you should be ashamed of posting. People converting to Christianity is no more significant than people converting to Islam. It's a sign of effective proselytization, nothing else. It's a fact that people convert to religions you would consider nearly meritless. It's a fact that people convert FROM Christianity. If Christianity was the only religion able to gain converts, that would at least be interesting. Doubling the percentage of PRC Christians from 2.3% of the population to 4.6% would not exactly take my breath away.
Christianity: The true religion because it invests more in proselytization. Sheesh!
Now if millions of people started converting to Christianity from other cultures without ever seeing a Bible or hearing from a missionary, that would be interesting.
Pay attention. The claim was that the type of religious experiences were largely determined by CULTURE. A defeater for that is any large conversion of people from another culture. I have such a defeater: CHINA.
I'm sure in your case that being full of shit is a choice because I know you're smart enough that you don't have to take inanity to this level. Only if the conversions are due to non-Christians having Christian religious experiences. If you're already at the altar, your culture has already changed and all it proves is that whoever recruited you is a good salesperson for their religion. Without a Bible or missionary it's impressive, with them it's just proselytization as usual. It's better support for my idea that Christians do a better job of exemplifying their faith when they're in a small minority and have to play nice than it is for the supernatural.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.