I won't damn 1.6 billion without more evidence.
But I will be provisionally leery of them because:
1) 1.6 billion people can, acting in concert make my life miserable.
2) they have shown themselves to be sufficiently uninterested in evidence based reality that they stick together over some pretty wacky holy writ led by some seriously wacky clerics.
3) their holy writ has in it commands to make my life as a heretic miserable
So until further evidence shows them to be nice folk (defined as folk who won't make my life miserable), I'll be on the fence but leaning towards damning them.
But I will be provisionally leery of them because:
1) 1.6 billion people can, acting in concert make my life miserable.
2) they have shown themselves to be sufficiently uninterested in evidence based reality that they stick together over some pretty wacky holy writ led by some seriously wacky clerics.
3) their holy writ has in it commands to make my life as a heretic miserable
So until further evidence shows them to be nice folk (defined as folk who won't make my life miserable), I'll be on the fence but leaning towards damning them.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?