(January 15, 2020 at 5:28 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If by 2.4% of the world Drich means percentage of the world's population that is atheist; he seems to be making a point that being a minority somehow makes us wrong. That isn't true, which is good for him, because the percentage of the world's population that is Christian is 29.81%; also a minority. But it's argument ad populum anyway, which means it really doesn't have anything to do with whether we're right or not.
^^Exactly this. Truth is not a democratic process - we don’t get to vote on it.
It has been estimated that, at any given moment, approximately one billion people believe, deeply and sincerely, in Father Christmas and all his attendant impedimenta. This belief, no matter how firmly held, is immaterial to the question of Father Christmas’ existence.
Boru
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