Statistical Evidence Against Christianity

[Davka]

Jesus fucking christ, you can't even read your own writing, how do you expect anyone to believe that you've accurately read anything anyone else has to say?

Nothing I've written here shows anything other than the fact that so-called Christians are no different from anyone else. I understand that you are incapable of comprehending that, because it flies in the face of your preset worldview, but I'm typing it anyways for the benefit of others.

Again, even if only 10% of those who claim to be Christians really are True BelieversTM, there should be a statistically significant difference between "christians" and everyone else. No such difference exists, ergo the Bible's claims regarding the effects of Salvation are lies.

You got the gist, and I live with and around Christians and I can tell you they are definitely different than the world. Something else I like to see when one wants to correct wording and grammar they have little to counter the argument.

GC

Nice try, but I addressed your argument as well as your lack of education. The inability to write properly in your native tongue is germane to the discussion, as it illustrates (at the very least) your poor grasp of the essentials of a grade-school education.

"I live with and around Christians" amounts to nothing more than apocryphal evidence. I have lived with and around Christians, Muslims, Jews, New-Age Hippies, and rural white Southerners. My own experience is that any group with strong spiritual beliefs looks and acts differently from "the world" - at least, when they are in community. Whether or not they act differently when (they think that) none of their coreligionists are looking is the more important question.

The only tool we have available which might help us to determine how Christians (or others) act "when no-one is looking" is the collection of statistics. And the statistics tell us that Christians are just as likely to fornicate, cheat on taxes, commit crimes, and otherwise violate the commandments as any other group. There is not even the tiniest statistically significant difference between the empirically-determined actions of self-identified Christians and the population as a whole.

What is even more damning to the arguments of the No True Scotsman proponents is that this lack of statistical difference does not change even when the group of "Christians" is narrowed down. Limiting the set to "Christians who read the Bible daily," or "Christians who attend church more than once a week," or "Evangelical Christians," or "born-again Christians" makes no difference whatsoever.

This is, of course, only one of many examples of how real-world data is at odds with the claims made in the Bible. The world does not know Christians by their fruits, or their love for one-another, or in fact by any difference whatsoever in their actions.