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"There's a reason why Christianity has so many turn-around stories." In absolute terms, sure, because there are lots of Christians and of course some of them w
by Hexstream 18y ago
"There's a reason why Christianity has so many turn-around stories."
In absolute terms, sure, because there are lots of Christians and of course some of them will have a turn-around story.
But if you take the ratio of turn-around/number of Christians and compared that to other religions or atheists I'm not sure you'd get a very impressive number.
This is all because of confirmation bias again. It's easier to see the couple thousands of success stories attributed to a religion than the millions of failures we don't hear about.
- Prrometheus 18y agoDiscipline is good for a certain kind of person. Religion provides discipline for those who have no self-discipline. I don't see why so many on this thread need to convince themselves that religion never helps people. It does. I've seen it. Does it help everyone? Probably not. Is it a net positive for society as a whole? I don't think so. However, it clearly and surely helps some people some of the time. I don't have any numbers, just personal anecdotes, but I've sure seen people saved by religion who would otherwise probably be dead, and I'm a hardcore atheist radical.