(May 12, 2025 at 6:41 pm)Belacqua Wrote:That's not at all what happened, not even close.(May 12, 2025 at 6:03 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Irrelevant? Not to anyone familiar with statistics, determining sample size is one of the first steps. You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.
Oh, I see what happened.
I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.
Quote:Belacqua Wrote:The inference is pretty clear, it was you who cited this anecdotal chat with two people, then made the assertion enlarged and underlined.
I remember meeting a Christian couple here in Hiroshima -- he was from Hiroshima and she was from Nagasaki. They were both doctors who had spent the majority of their careers doing charity work. He was a founding member of an anti-nuke organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize.
I asked them about their theological beliefs and they said they had never thought about it. It was the least important part of Christianity in their eyes.
So I suspect this is true of the majority. And it's the reason why trying to dissuade them from Christianity by asking for objective evidence of a prime mover -- or something like that -- is a niche hobby for people on line, but doesn't make much difference in their lives.